Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Terrorism or sabotage committed in the name of environmental causes.
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- noun
Terrorism with anecological motive, such asattacks againstcorporations perceived to be harming thenatural environment .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists
Etymologies
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Examples
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ARENA (voice-over): As this upscale Colorado ski resort burned to the ground in 1988, the term ecoterrorism gained national attention.
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EFL, ALF - heck, the FBI calls ecoterrorism the #1 terrorist threat in the US!!
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OpEdNews - Article: ACTION ALERT: Stop PA Governor from signing "ecoterrorism" bill
ACTION ALERT: Stop PA Governor from signing "ecoterrorism" bill 2006
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Leaked DHS document tars respected conservation groups with "ecoterrorism" label
unbossed.com 2009
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Where the hell does the word "ecoterrorism" come from?
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You’ve been predominantly a newsmagazine journalist, and your first book was an investigation of a true crime story, the so-called "ecoterrorism" attacks at Vail ski resort in
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Here's what we need to learn from Redwood Summer: the language of fringe environmentalism that was made incarnate in violence of ecoterrorism didn't work.
Ben Daniel: Jared Loughner And The Incarnation Of Violent Rhetoric Ben Daniel 2011
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But the show tapped into a potent collective fear that we could be undone by an enemy bent on ecoterrorism.
Lynn Parramore: Superfreaky: The Wild World of Geoengineering 2010
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Topics ranged from presidential politics, to ecoterrorism, to global economics.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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The siege on the drilling platform connected to the ecoterrorism in State of Fear, but the whole “This is from the future to tell us not to screw up the planet” bit was just lame.
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