ELF---Why does this seem like a good idea to them?

For those who were not aware, ELF (Earth Liberation Front) has struck again with their environmental terrorism. This time, very close to my home. They burnt some five multi-million-dollar homes very close to my hometown: in Echo Lake. So, these houses are on the Street of Dreams, which is a collection of houses built every year by corporations such as Costco, Walmart, Microsoft, etc. The houses are then auctioned off. They are HUGE houses and worth millions of dollars. In an attempt to save the environment, ELF lit five of them on fire. The damages are estimated at $7 million +. What they don't seem to understand are a few concepts:

a) House-fire is bad for the environment. It threatens forests, releases CO and CO2 and that these houses aren't completely wood. Everything else that they're built of(such a petroleum based products) is going to go up in flames as well and be released into the atmosphere.

b) The corporations are just going to cut down more trees and use more resources to rebuild them.

c) Did they think that they'd just be running from the police after this one? No. The FBI's chasing them too at the moment.


You'd think they'd get a brain.

Here's the story from a Seattle news station if you want to see it: http://www.komotv.com/news/16220217.html

How do we know they did it? Here's a good give-a-way: Look what was found in front of the burning buildings:

Past ELF arsons include:

Other mansions in the Puget Sound Region and the University of Washington Horticulture Building (ELF believed that it was genetically engineering trees. Interestingly enough, it actually wasn't).