terricide

plural terricides

1. The destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life.

   I have served notice to the state that I am withdrawing my support of its program of terricide in every way I can.

   1983 April 9, Kenneth Hale Wehmann, “Conscientious Resistance”, in Gay Community News, page 5

   3 more examples

   Stuart Elden, for instance, proposes to use the concept of “terricide” to name the damage being inflicted on the living surfaces of the globe.

   2014, Gastón R. Gordillo, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction, Duke University Press, page 83

   Such images thus offer a dramatic, disturbing and unsettling visualization of the socially and ecologically disastrous operational landscapes of extended urbanization – Lefebvre might have described them as a form of "terricide" – that are being forged at a truly colossal scale to support and reproduce urban life under twenty-first-century capitalism.

   2017, Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays, Bauverlag, page 206

   In this context, terricide defines the destruction of the three dimensions that shape life and existence: The tangible ecosystems, the people who inhabit them, and the energies that regulate life on earth and constitute the perceptible ecosystems.

   2022, Anja Habersang, “Utopia, future imaginations and prefigurative politics in the indigenous women’s movement in Argentina”, in Social Movement Studies, →DOI, page 7