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ecocatastrophe

n. An ecological catastrophe, especially a man-made disaster that affects the environment

Usage examples of "ecocatastrophe".

My generation has, by the skin of our teeth as you say, and by enormous good fortune, just barely staved off an ecocatastrophe so total that nothing vertebrate could have survived - and we have even made some remarkable scientific breakthroughs.