Talk:Ecotage

Terrorism term
''According to its advocates, which include the Earth Liberation Front and similar terrorist groups ... [it] requires neither violence nor any direct confrontation with police, politicians, or other authority ...''

The use of the term "terrorism" alongside the claim that ecotage does not require violence makes this sentence contradictory. Terrorism is also a term that it is almost impossible to deploy neutrally. Dirtbiscuit 05:56, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * Read what the FBI says about this and Operation Backfire (FBI), a police action designed to put a end, forcibly if necessary, to "Ecotage", other Eco-Terrorisim. 205.240.146.37 (talk) 04:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I would consider the defacing of the average person's personal property terrorism, is there a problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.205.199 (talk) 01:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

This article is pretty terrible (no offence). I have worked a definition based on an academic article... Would love to delete the rest and perhaps give examples of actions of enivironmental sabotage. This is not the place to argue the terrorist vs sabotage vs civil disobedience distinctions, merely a place to acknowledge the debate... --Shg3 (talk) 20:09, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * it reads like a promo for the ELF. Are these the only examples? Chrismorey (talk) 08:53, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Why does "monkeywrenching" redirect here? Monkeywrenching is a term that can refer to economic or political sabotage (and often does in common usage). This redirect isn't really appropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.90.217.181 (talk) 09:44, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

Merging with Eco-terrorism
FBI does not make ecotage different to eco-terrorism. "Using the ideology of fighting for the environment, eco-terrorists direct their aggression against state institutions, corporations, businesses and individuals. In doing so, they hit the economy and civil liberties. The catalog of their activities includes such methods of action as: demonstrations, roadblocks, occupation of buildings intimidation, sabotage (so-called ecotage 15) including destruction of machines, releasing animals used for experiments, scientific experiments, bred for leather and fur and planting explosive charges in headquarters of biotechnological corporations, near homes of their directors, beatings, blowing up laboratories and sending threats to people conducting scientific research with the use of animals" Geysirhead (talk) 15:39, 14 October 2022 (UTC)


 * It seems like the FBI would have a fairly obvious ulterior motive in expanding the term "eco-terrorism" to include as much as possible. Also, if one uses your quote to expand the definition of ecoterrorism to "things the FBI says eco-terrorists do," then wouldn't demonstrations and roadblocks also constitute ecoterrorism? That seems like an absurd result 71.47.201.37 (talk) 22:48, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
 * the FBI is onliy one source, who has plenty of reason to be against radical environementalism. Also, the definition of 'terrorism' is 'the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.'. Eco-Sabotage does not subscibe to this definition, as it is (subjectively) non violent ,is not used for intimidation and it is not against civilians. In the interest of staying objective and impartial, we should not merge these two! J Readd (talk) 19:23, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support merge proposal; if there are shades of difference between the two topics then they can be discussed on one page. Such difference do seem to rely on POV. The current Ecotage article seems to be a discussion not of the topic of environmentally-inspired terrorism in general, but rather a discussion of the use of this term in the context of the Earth Liberation Front, using a subset of examples from Timeline of Earth Liberation Front actions. For reasons of context and overlap, a merge to Eco-terrorism (but maintaining a separate section) would help readers. Alternatively, a merge to Earth Liberation Front might be possible, given that the use of the term seems to focus on the activities of this group. Klbrain (talk) 09:23, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Addendum: I note that the current websites purporting some connection with the group (ELF (The original) and Earth Liveration Front) do use the terms terrorism and Ecoterrorism, but don't use Ecotage, suggesting that the use of the term in the context described is WP:SYNTH. Hence, perhaps a merge to Ecotage! might be better: remove the examples as irrelevant, and move Ecotage across. Klbrain (talk) 09:38, 1 May 2023 (UTC)