eco-apocalypse

noun

An apocalyptic destruction of the Earth's environment.

Meanings

nouneco-apocalypse (plural eco-apocalypses)

plural eco-apocalypses

  1. An apocalyptic destruction of the Earth's environment.

    They talked about war, poverty, music, films, property prices, and eco-apocalypse (especially that).

    2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk
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    Many scenarios are possible, some of them ghastly—including the eco-apocalypses imagined in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road or the 2006 film Children of Men.

    2009 -, Best Australian Political Writing 2009, page 296

    If strategic realism is largely a discourse of the Right, its Left complement is located largely in eco-apocalypse discourse.

    2017, Imre Szeman, Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities: An Anthology
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