Ecological Warfare (Noun)
Meaning
Violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Environmental groups were accused of engaging in ecological warfare when they spiked trees to prevent logging, which injured a worker who cut into one of the trees with a chainsaw.
- The pipeline construction site was repeatedly vandalized by eco-activists who used the tactic as a form of ecological warfare to slow down the project.
- Critics labeled the acts of arson carried out by radical environmentalists against car dealerships and gas-guzzling vehicle manufacturers as acts of ecological warfare.
- During the WTO summit protests, police reported cases of ecological warfare carried out by eco-extremists, who broke windows, started fires, and set fire to luxury vehicles to bring attention to climate change.
- Researchers characterized the direct actions of Greenpeace members as a form of ecological warfare after they dumped containers of pollutants and noxious waste onto a manufacturer's factory property in an act of retaliatory justice.