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Concept
Ecotage
Résumé
Ecotage ('ik@,ta:zh ) is sabotage carried out for environmental reasons.
Timeline of Earth Liberation Front actions
All damage figures below are in United States dollars. Some well-known acts of ecotage have included:
Circa 1969–1985; ecological activist James F. Phillips, operating covertly under the codename "The Fox", carried out a series of ecotage actions and subvertising campaigns against corporations that were polluting the Fox River in Illinois.
1998 – Arson of buildings at Vail Mountain in the United States by the ELF (Earth Liberation Front).
March 11, 1999 – Genetically engineered potatoes uprooted at Crop and Food research centre in New Zealand.
December 25, 1999 – In Monmouth, Oregon, fire destroys the main office of the Boise Cascade logging company costing over million in dollars). ELF claims responsibility.
2001 – Members of the ELF were prosecuted for setting off a firebomb that caused million in dollars) at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture.
2003 – On August 1, a 206-unit condominium being built in San Diego, California was burnt down causing damage in excess of million in dollars). A 12-foot banner at the scene read "If you build it, we will burn it," signed, "The E.L.F.s are mad."
2003 – On August 22, arsonists associated with the ELF attacked several car dealerships in east suburban Los Angeles, burning down a warehouse and vandalizing over 100 vehicles, most of them SUVs or Hummers (chosen for their notoriously poor fuel efficiency) and causing over million in dollars).
In their 1972 environmental-action book Ecotage!, Sam Love and David Obst claimed to have coined the word "ecotage" by combining "ecology" and "sabotage" to describe a "branch of tactical biology."
In fiction, the practice of ecotage was popularized in Edward Abbey's 1975 anarchistic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and its sequel Hayduke Lives! (1990).
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