Look up: Eco-terrorism

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   Eco-terrorism
   `Eco-terrorism` or `ecoterrorism` is the concept of terrorism conducted for the sake of ecological or environmental causes. The term is controversial and may have been coined by Ron Arnold, an executive at the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and author of `Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature`. Eco-terrorism is defined by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Section as `the use or threatened u...
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   Economic terrorism
   The concept of `economic terrorism` is disputed, and is generally used in a polemical or demagogic way to associate the term `terrorism` with a country, a company or a group accused of abuses. Nevertheless, it is also used in a way more strictly defined to indicate an attempt at economic destabilization by a group. More precisely, in 2005 the Center of Security Policy of Geneva defined economic terrorism in the following terms: , July 11-12, ...
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   ecoterrorism
   ecological terrorism noun violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists
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   ecoterrorism
   destruction, or the threat of destruction, of the environment by states, groups, or individuals in order to intimidate or to coerce governments or ... [2 related articles]
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   ecoterrorism
   ecoterrorism, ecoterroist 1. The threat to use violent acts that would harm the quality of the environment in order to blackmail a group or society. It also includes the actual carrying out of the threats. 2. The sabotage of the activities of individuals or corporations, e.g., industrial companies, considered to be polluting or destroying the natural environment.
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