Meaning of omnicide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The total extinction of the human species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction through nuclear warfare, but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe.
   countable, uncountable
2. Someone or something that causes total destruction.
   countable, rare

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Examples

“How extraordinary that Curtis LeMay believed for the rest of his life that the United States “lost” the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War. If John Kennedy had followed LeMay's advice [to bomb Cuba and take out the missile sites], history would have forgotten the Nazis and their terrible Holocaust. Ours would have been the historic omnicide.”

“Our soils have been made sterile over many areas from pesticides, which have been really omnicides. Today, DDT as the greatest culprit, and one which has brought immense profit to the pesticide producing industry, has been spread worldwide.”

“Ilmari? First name of a would-be Turkish papicide? A Libyan omnicide? No, merely that of an apparently mild-mannered Finn whose studies put him at the crossroads of the major influences so patently reflected in his music—those of Rachmaninoff and of the French Impressionists.”

“[T]hese ‘super-bombs’ shatter a civilisation’s own planet but ‘the nuclear jets from the explosion could even activate their Sun, transforming it into a giant hydrogen bomb’. Perhaps supernovas are twinkling omnicides in the sky.”

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