Eco-terrorism

Eco-terrorism is an act of <a href="/facts/Violence/eJlCdt82">violence</a> which is committed in support of <a href="/facts/Environmentalism/hhFsXTLE">environmental</a> causes, against people or property.
The <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> <a href="/facts/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation/UY93jwX6">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) defines eco-terrorism as "...the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or their property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature." The FBI attributed eco-terrorists to US $200 million in property damage between 2003 and 2008. A majority of states in the US have introduced laws aimed at penalizing eco-terrorism.
Eco-terrorism is a form of <a href="/facts/Radical_environmentalism/xdVCdVJC">radical environmentalism</a> that arose out of the same school of thought that brought about <a href="/facts/Deep_ecology/EdxXPV9v">deep ecology</a>, <a href="/facts/Ecofeminism/4zPkNPQ0">ecofeminism</a>, <a href="/facts/Social_ecology_(theory)/BR8Ax6C4">social ecology</a>, and <a href="/facts/Bioregionalism/KWlxFYY1">bioregionalism</a>.

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Eco-terrorism