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I personally used to be a really huge fan of anti-civ thinking, and for that reason I read a lot of eco-extremist texts and did contemplate killing people. However, I see the fact I wanted to do that as being more about my own naivety and sadness more than a "wild impulse".

"there numerous writings on eco-extremism, a lot(the majority) of it coming from Indigenous/Native people, and an Indigenous/Native critique"

lol, there were no indigenous eco-extremists. Yes, there were certainly many indigenous murderers, using the word indigenous to describe people who had a more tribal and un-civilized lifestyle. Eco-extremism can be summed up as thus: "humans are pitiful and killing any of them will do". The people referred to in EE writing that are "indigenous eco-extremists" had no such ideas, they were simply killing people from the more civilized cultures because they were disgusted by it. They had no plans of killing themselves after they were through with killing their enemies. A real Eco-extremist would kill themselves after killing everyone else, and if there is anything to admire about EE...it is that!

In the end EE is nothing but a bundle of rhetoric, and pretty well written I might add. In the end though, nothing they write about has anything to do with "ecology", it's all just about murder and a poorly masked hatred of civilization. The major issue I have with it is it's all driven by binaries that don't get questioned in green anarchist spaces: like "human" vs. "the wild", "inhuman" vs. "humanism". Eco-extremists hate things which are pitiful, but the whole thing is about hating the human race for the one thing that doesn't make them pitiful: being capable of planetary genocides!

And in that way, anarchists shouldn't get bent out of shape when EE is compared to fascism, because if you only hate "people who are pitiful", you are incredibly similar to hitler himself! Fascists hate weakness and find it disgusting, looking to turn everyone but their blessed race into chattel slaves.