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Environmental destruction
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ecocide
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n. The complete destruction of an ecosystem due to human activities. It may result from exploitation of resources, nuclear warfare or the dumping of harmful chemicals.
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Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished.
Usage examples of ecocide.
Rather than Eastern Approaches, a romantic work of travel set in the 1930s and 1940s by British diplomat Fitzroy Maclean, in which a procession of camels on the outskirts of Baku “reminded” the author that he “was already on the fringes of Asia,” I found the most evocative guide to the region to be a book called Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege, by Murray Feshbach, a professor at Georgetown University, and Alfred Friendly, Jr.
I was grateful when I first arrived in Tashkent to have brought notes from another, less romantically inclined volume: Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege, by Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr.
How do you know that once they sec we're ready to commit genocide and ecocide both, they won't retaliate in kind?