terracide

== English == === Etymology === From Latin terra (“the world”) +‎ -cide. === Noun === terracide (uncountable) The destruction of a planet or of natural ecosystems. 1998, Daniel C. Maguire & Larry L. Rasmussen, Ethics for a Small Planet: New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology, State University of New York Press (1998), →ISBN, back cover blurb: The sense of the sacred is presented here as the nucleus of the good and the only force that can bring about the lifestyle changes and power reallocations that are necessary to prevent terracide. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:terracide. ==== Related terms ==== terricide === Anagrams === traceried