Eco-terrorism

Eco-terrorism is an act of violence dedicated in support of environmental causes, against people or property.

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI defines eco-terrorism as "...the ownership or threatened usage of violence of a criminal sort against the people guilty of destroying the environment or their property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational institution for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature." The FBI credited eco-terrorists with US$200 million in property destruction between 2003 together with 2008. A majority of states in the US make-up introduced laws aimed at penalizing eco-terrorism.

Eco-terrorism is a develope of radical environmentalism that arose out of the same school of thought that brought approximately deep ecology, ecofeminism, social ecology, and bioregionalism.

Eco-terrorism, civil disobedience, and sabotage

Eco-terrorism is often defined as the use of violence carried out to further environmental policy change. Eco-terrorists are willing to inflict emotional and physical distress on their victims whether they believe it will further their environmental goals. This more radical description of environmental action is illegal, as compared to its more moderate forerunner of eco-activism which is not illegal and would be classified as a form of civil disobedience and uses protests, sit ins and other civil actions to issue environmental change. Eco-terrorism can also increase sabotage in the name of the environment, which is illegal as this includes crimes against property which could lead to harm to humans. Noting that in the United States, the FBI's definition of terrorism includes acts of violence against property, which makes near acts of sabotage fall in the realm of domestic terrorism.

Sabotage involves destroying, or threatening to destroy, property, and in this issue is also asked as monkeywrenching or ecotage. numerous acts of sabotage involve the damage of equipment and unmanned facilities using arson.