geocide

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) The destruction of the earth, its ecosystems, or some part thereof, due to human activity.
 * 2) * 1991, ; Thomas Clarke; Stephen Dunn and Anne Lonergan, editors, Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation between Humans and the Earth, Mystic, Conn.: Twenty-Third Publications, ISBN 978-0-89622-471-1 ; quoted in Cristina Vanin, “Attaining Harmony with the Earth”, in John C. Haughey, editor, In Search of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life, Washington, D.C.:, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58901-781-8 , page 184:
 * [T]here is the inability of the Christian world to respond in any effective way to the destruction of the planet. There is this terrible lack of concern for biocide or geocide. We have no moral principles to deal with them.  Somehow, when I was quite young, I saw the beginning of biocide and geocide.
 * [T]here is the inability of the Christian world to respond in any effective way to the destruction of the planet. There is this terrible lack of concern for biocide or geocide. We have no moral principles to deal with them.  Somehow, when I was quite young, I saw the beginning of biocide and geocide.