Meaning of terricide | Babel Free

Definitions

The destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life.

Examples

“I have served notice to the state that I am withdrawing my support of its program of terricide in every way I can.”

“Stuart Elden, for instance, proposes to use the concept of “terricide” to name the damage being inflicted on the living surfaces of the globe.”

“Such images thus offer a dramatic, disturbing and unsettling visualization of the socially and ecologically disastrous operational landscapes of extended urbanization – Lefebvre might have described them as a form of "terricide" – that are being forged at a truly colossal scale to support and reproduce urban life under twenty-first-century capitalism.”

“In this context, terricide defines the destruction of the three dimensions that shape life and existence: The tangible ecosystems, the people who inhabit them, and the energies that regulate life on earth and constitute the perceptible ecosystems.”

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