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ecocide

[ ek-uh-sahyd, ee-kuh- ]

noun

  1. the destruction of large areas of the natural environment by such activity as nuclear warfare, overexploitation of resources, or dumping of harmful chemicals.


ecocide

/ ˈiːkəˌsaɪd; ˈɛkə- /

noun

  1. total destruction of an area of the natural environment, esp by human agency
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • o·d adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ecocide1

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; eco- + -cide
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Example Sentences

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He joins her for much of the journey, causing detours to photograph waste sites and abandoned munitions factories as part of a vague project on ecocide.

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“Today’s testimonies have emphasized the age-old stories of greed, colonization, … and the ongoing ecocide caused by the extractive industries,” said Casey Camp-Horinek, an elder of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma and one of the tribunal’s judges.

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Julian Cribb, a British-Australian author who specializes in covering the intersections between science and politics, has published nine books on subjects related to ecocide — the practice in which humans actively destroy their environment.

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So ecocide is just a kind of a lawyer's term for killing off the cradle of life that supports us.

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Basically ecocide is human overpopulation.

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