Eco-terrorism has been a topic of fictional books, television programmes and films.
List of works
- The events of 28 Days Later are inadvertently set in motion by a group of eco-terrorists.
- Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Ark Angel, by Anthony Horowitz, which features alleged eco-terrorists as antagonists.
- Avatar, a film directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang.
- Avengers: Infinity War in which Thanos sets out on a mission to wipe out half the population of the universe in order to preserve its resources.
- Batman & Robin, in which Poison Ivy (character) plans to cover Gotham City, and eventually the world, with her genetically modified plant life.
- Kixeye's Battle Pirates was set after eco-terrorists detonated glaciers, raising sea levels and reducing landmass to 1 percent.
- In The Border an eco-terrorist bombs an Albertan oil line.
- The CHERUB novel series by Robert Muchamore features a fictional eco-terrorist group named Help Earth, most prominent in The Recruit and Divine Madness.
- Concrete: Think Like a Mountain by Paul Chadwick.
- The Devouring Earth in City of Heroes.
- Space Warriors Gateway Shuffle in Cowboy Bebop.
- Bushroot from Darkwing Duck.
- The Divide by Nicholas Evans.
- The East, a 2013 film directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Ellen Page.
- Eco Fighters, a video game by Capcom where the player controls a fishlike ship to fight a company that has polluted the earth and mined its natural resources for profit.
- Edge of Darkness, a BBC television series written by Troy Kennedy Martin.
- Final Fantasy VII - The organisation AVALANCHE launches attacks on the Shinra Company's Mako Reactors to save the planet.
- First Reformed, a 2017 film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried.
- A Friend of the Earth by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, an animated comedy film in the Futurama series.
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters in which an eco-terrorist group sets to free the kaijus to heal the Earth from the damages that humans have caused.
- The Hammer of Eden by Ken Follett which is about a group of eco-terrorists who create earthquakes.
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen.
- Jokerman 8, by Richard Melo.
- "Informed", an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 8).
- Lullaby a novel (2002) by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way a novel (2005) by Bruce Campbell.
- The Mars trilogy, novels (1993-1999) by Kim Stanley Robinson, in which a faction of Martian colonists seek to prevent terraforming of the planet.
- The Massive by Brian Wood (2013-2015) about a futuristic direct-action environmentalist group repairing a ruined earth.
- Anetta and Daisuke Hayami (aka Speedy Dave) in the Mega Man Battle Network series of games by Capcom.
- Mengele Zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty by Hideo Kojima.
- Blue Cosmos in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
- The NCIS season one episode "Sub Rosa" involves eco-terrorism.
- Night Moves a film (2014) by Kelly Reichardt.
- The Green Storm and the Anti-Traction League from Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet.
- On Deadly Ground, a 1998 film by and starring Steven Seagal.
- The Patlabor franchise features eco-terrorists as recurring antagonists.
- Poison Ivy and Ra's al Ghul, foes of The Batman, from the DC Comics universe. The former values plant life more than human life and is willing to murder to protect flora, the latter believes human overpopulation has thrown the environment out of balance and wants to cull the human race via acts of genocide and mass murder on a global scale.
- In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Team Magma and Aqua have motives that are similar to eco-terrorism.
- Quantum of Solace, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker James Bond films.
- Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.
- The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunner.
- Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen.
- Silent Running, a 1972 science-fiction film by Douglas Trumbull.
- South Park episodes "Douche and Turd", "Fun with Veal" and "Free Willzyx".
- The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth.
- Colonel Green, a villain from the past, is described as an eco-terrorist in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Demons".
- State of Fear by Michael Crichton.
- Stormchild, by Bernard Cornwell, one of his sea-themed thrillers. After the death of his wife a man sets out on a quest to rescue the last of his family (his daughter) from an eco-cult that have become eco-terrorists.
- In the film The Thaw, Val Kilmer plays the role of an eco-terrorist.
- Tom Clancy's EndWar and the sequel Tom Clancy's EndWar: The Hunted, in which the eco-terrorist group the Green Brigade are some of the main antagonists in both novels.
- Enrica Villablanca in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
- Tom Clancy's The Division and sequel Tom Clancy's The Division 2 deal with the aftermath of a genetically-engineered smallpox pandemic, which was designed and released deliberately by eco-terrorist Gordon Amherst.
- Twelve Monkeys, a 1995 film starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler is a novel that features a character who is an eco-terrorist.
- "Darkness Falls" and "Fearful Symmetry", two episodes of The X-Files.
- Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.