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Sabotage vs Ecodefence - What's the difference?

sabotage | ecodefence |

As nouns the difference between sabotage and ecodefence

is that sabotage is while ecodefence is (originally|us) collectively, actions intended to disrupt human activities perceived to be damaging to the environment, typically including civil disobedience and illegal sabotage.

sabotage

English

(wikipedia sabotage)

Noun

(-)
  • A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
  • (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resourcesJP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms ..

    • Verb

    (sabotag)
  • to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
    • The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
    • Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

    See also

    * terrorism

    References

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    ecodefence

    English

    Alternative forms

    * eco-defence, ecodefence * eco-defense, ecodefense

    Noun

    (-)
  • (originally, US) Collectively, actions intended to disrupt human activities perceived to be damaging to the environment, typically including civil disobedience and illegal sabotage.
  • * 1987 : University of Waterloo Faculty of Environmental Studies, Alternatives , volume 14, unknown pages: (1)], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=837NS6rcOoeuNdKP1ZIG&cd=1&num=100&as_brr=0&id=L8G3AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22ecodefence%22&q=%22Foreman+concedes+that+ecodefence%22 (2)], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=837NS6rcOoeuNdKP1ZIG&cd=1&num=100&as_brr=0&id=L8G3AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22ecodefence%22&q=%22ecodefence+tactics+they+advocate%22 (3)], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=837NS6rcOoeuNdKP1ZIG&cd=1&num=100&as_brr=0&id=L8G3AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22ecodefence%22&q=%22ecodefence+groups%22+%22the+sense+that+ecodefence%22 (4) (Trent University)
    • ?¹? Ecodefence is a provocative call to those deeply concerned with the need for immediate protection of the limited wilderness areas remaining in Canada and the U.S.
    ?²? Foreman concedes that ecodefence is not the only answer to the defence and promotion of wilderness.
    ?³? The guide includes contributions from several different authors who, with the exception of Foreman, remain anonymous because the ecodefence tactics they advocate are acts of civil disobedience or crimes against property.
    ??? […] who should be included in the ecodefence' groups, and how to ensure one’s own safety and the safety of those engaged in the activities one is trying to prevent. [¶] Despite the space dedicated to the safety issue, one walks away with the sense that ' ecodefence may be a very dangerous activity.
  • * 1994 : Richard Sylvan [aut.] and David Bennett [aut., ed.], The Greening of Ethics , page 211 (White Horse Press; ISBN 0816515042, 9780816515042)
    • Ecodefence' groups are seen, generally unfavourably, as a mix of ‘Green Luddites’ and ‘Green Guerillas’ (neither comparison is very satisfactory; the latter description is inept, given that they generally avoid violence, in ordinary senses, and intend none, carry no weapons, and only venture out on occasional forays). One reason for the controversialness of the tactics is that ' ecodefence activities conflict, through direct commission, with the laws of the state, which are commonly arranged to allow, or even encourage, environmental devastation and vandalism.
  • * 2002 : Chris Atton, Alternative Media , page 124
    • The front page leads with an editorial about the Gandalf trial under a typically confrontational headline: ‘Fuck you, pigs!’. The following three pages are taken up with the magazine’s regular ‘diaries’: of animal liberation, ecodefence and ‘community resistance’. Each attempts to list all examples of actions (both violent and peaceful) that have taken place in support of these causes since the previous issue.

    Synonyms

    * ecotage

    See also

    * (wikipedia "ecodefence") * monkeywrenching

    References

    “ eco-defence n.'']” defined as a derived term of the prefix “[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50071979 eco-, ''comb. form'']”, listed in the '' [draft revision; Dec. 2009