Meanings
- derogatoryuncountableIntentional acceleration of climate change.
The administration’s gleeful climate arson and ‘let the weak perish’ coronavirus response in particular signal that their worldview is even darker than self-interest alone.
2020 September 9, Paul Waters-Smith, “Trump’s Corrosive Values Will Spread”, in Current Affairs1 more example
The Transportation Research Board, nominally an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is engaged in technocratic climate arson with its call for further highway expansion and more car travel.
2019 April 9, Joe Cortright, “Highway to Hell: Climate denial at the TRB”, in City Observatory
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