eco-apocalypse

English

Noun

eco-apocalypse (plural eco-apocalypses)

  1. An apocalyptic destruction of the Earth's environment.
    • 2009 -, Best Australian Political Writing 2009, page 296:
      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.
    • 2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk:
      They talked about war, poverty, music, films, property prices, and eco-apocalypse (especially that).
    • 2017, Imre Szeman, ‎Dominic Boyer, Energy Humanities: An Anthology:
      If strategic realism is largely a discourse of the Right, its Left complement is located largely in eco-apocalypse discourse.
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