doomwatch

noun

doomwatch

noun

Etymology From doom + watch.

1

A pessimistic outlook on the future.

  • […]using linear projections of current high levels of population growth and consumption of raw materials produced doomwatch forecasts.1986, W T S Gould, Richard Lawton, Planning for Population Change:
  • Yet however essential it may have been to changing assumptions about energy use, protest and doomwatch activism was never New Alchemy's primary focus.2005, Nancy Jack Todd, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design:
Related terms
doomwatcher, doomwatching

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