Climaticide
I have just learned a new word.
It rhymes with genocide, homicide, insecticide, fratricide, infanticide, matricide, regicide, or suicide.
I discovered this new word in a French newspaper article describing French carmakers Peugeot and Renault’s belated entry into the lucrative SUV gas-guzzler market. The word is how several environmental groups describe the inevitable effects of the carmakers’ initiative. Given the way Frenchpersonnes drive, other words ending in ‘icide’ might also apply.
But back to climaticide. It is an interesting word.
Now, who can tell me what it means?
Why Call it “Climaticide”? Calling Things By Their True Names « Johnny Rook’s Climaticide Chronicles wrote:
[...] several months ago (only afterwards did I learn that the term already existed in French but with a narrower meaning) to describe the human-driven destruction of our Holocene-epoch climate, the climate in which our [...]
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