Meanings
plural cosmocides
- The destruction of planet Earth, especially as a result of human activity.
The Worldwatch scientists said — as many others do — that we are already well on the way toward ecological cosmocide.
1989, Plain Truth - Volume 54, page 93 more examples
Reflecting upon the effects of the current crisis of masculinity, Sam Keen asks: Why has the gender that gave us the Sistine Chapel brought us to the edge of cosmocide?
1996, David C. James, What are They Saying about Masculine Spirituality?, page 78A nuclear strike upon the major cities of the western world — Berlin, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, and many others, will will ^([sic]) result in a massive thermo-nuclea ^([sic]) war and throw the world on the verge of annihilation and cosmocide.
2002, Prophecy Flash! - Volume 16, page 57A mixed-up, unhappy and fearful world in chaos, divided against itself, filled with heartaches, frustrations, broken homes, juvenile delinquency, crime, insanity, racial hatreds, riots and violence, wars and death; devoid of honesty, truth andjustice; now facing extinction by man-inflicted cosmocide—that is the fruit of modern education.
2013, Herbert W. Armstrong, The Wonderful World Tomorrow: What it will be like - The destruction of the universe.
On the other hand, if we knew that superhuman AI would one day commit cosmocide and extinguish all life in our Universe, why should today's humans agree to this lifeless future if we have the power to prevent it by creating tomorrow's AI differently?
2017, Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence2 more examples
The removal of all potential—both good and evil—from the universe would have dire consequences. It would be both effective cosmocide—the destruction of a cosmos which was/is energized by holy potential—and, as well, akin to Divine suicide, since holy quest for potential is at the epicenter of the Divine.
2008, David Birnbaum, God and Evil: Religious Man, page 98This Biscuitoid Cosmocide may sound like a particularly egregious case of nihilistically bad manners, but it is our only hope. Once the universe is nipped in the bud it will be impossible for the BisQuit to occur, thus saving the universe: By preemptively destroying reality the destruction of reality is itself destroyed, allowing the universe to continue to exist!
2009, Pope Gus Rasputin Nishnabotna Sni-A-Bar, The Nuclear Platypus Biscuit Bible, page 177
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