Editing Sabotage (section)

== As environmental action ==
{{Main|Ecotage}}
Certain groups turn to the destruction of property to stop environmental destruction or to make visible arguments against forms of modern technology they consider detrimental to the environment. The U.S. [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) and other law enforcement agencies use the term [[eco-terrorist]] when applied to damage of property. Proponents argue that since property cannot feel terror, damage to property is more accurately described as sabotage. Opponents, by contrast, point out that property owners and operators can indeed feel terror. The image of the [[monkey wrench]] thrown into the moving parts of a machine to stop it from working was popularized by [[Edward Abbey]] in the novel ''[[The Monkey Wrench Gang]]'' and has been adopted by eco-activists to describe the destruction of earth damaging machinery.

From 1992 to late 2007 a [[Radical environmentalism|radical environmental]] activist movement known as [[Earth Liberation Front]] (ELF) engaged in a near-constant campaign of decentralized sabotage of any construction projects near wildlands and extractive industries such as logging and even [[1998 Vail arson attacks|an arson attack against a ski resort]] in [[Vail, Colorado]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wyrick |first=Randy |date=2018-10-27 |title=Eco-terrorists set fire to Vail Mountain 20 years ago, and the response showed how mutual aid could benefit mountain communities |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/27/vail-mountain-arson-looking-back/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607095412/https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/27/vail-mountain-arson-looking-back/amp/ |archive-date=2023-06-07 |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=The Denver Post |language=en-US}}</ref> ELF used sabotage tactics often in loose coordination with other environmental activist movements to physically delay or destroy threats to wildlands as the political will developed to protect the targeted wild areas that ELF engaged.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.targetofopportunity.com/elf.htm|title=Earth Liberation Front|work=targetofopportunity.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iww.org/history/library/Bari/TreeSpiking1|title=The Secret History of Tree Spiking – Part 1|work=iww.org}}</ref>