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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Terracide: The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History |

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History | TomDispatch
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide.  And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide.  But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on, the world as humanity had known it until, historically speaking, late last night.  A possibility might be “terracide” from the Latin word for earth.  It has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist.

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