ecodisaster
nounEtymology From eco- + disaster.
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An ecological disaster.
- The college had been suing in state and federal courts for twenty years to preserve this wetland from the "ecodisaster" of drainage and development as a medium-security prison.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- Novelists like Michael Crichton have imagined nanoscale robots creating an ecodisaster.2007 November 7, Barnaby J. Feder, “Aiding the Environment, a Nanostep at a Time”, in New York Times: