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ecocide
[ ek-uh-sahyd, ee-kuh- ]
noun
- 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
- total destruction of an area of the natural environment, esp by human agency
Other yvlog Forms
- o·d adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
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.
“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.
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.
So ecocide is just a kind of a lawyer's term for killing off the cradle of life that supports us.
Basically ecocide is human overpopulation.
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