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.