ecocatastrophe

[ek-oh-kuh-tas-truh-fee, ee-koh-]

noun

Ecology.

1. a disaster caused by changes in the environment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ecocatastrophe¹

First recorded in 1965–70; eco- + catastrophe

Example Sentences

Other elegiac poets, other poets of ecocatastrophe, revel in sensory detail, or else pursue scrambled language for chaotic times.

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In “Dirty Water,” he declares affection in ecocatastrophe terms — “I’m a natural disaster/You’re the morning after all my storms” — as the music evolves from gentle neo-psychedelic pop to full rock blare behind an environmental warning: “Bleed dirty water/breathe dirty sky.”

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VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed Southern Reach Trilogy, returns with a novel set in the throes of a drawn-out ecocatastrophe.

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Ecocatastrophe, wide income disparity, homelessness, inequality — all these were part of the landscape of Guthrie’s America, and today’s.

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Only this year was the scope of the resulting ecocatastrophe revealed to the world.

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