climacide

English needs to import the French term “climaticide” and people should start using it as widely as it’s used in French. I’ve translated it before as “climaticide” but I think “climacide” as used here is probably better)

Bluesky Social 2026

Climacide compacts all that into one word manufactured to fit current reality. It indicates that climate changeisn’t simply happening. It is being done by somebody and some institutions with malicious or reckless intent, and they remain at large, and they must be identified, apprehended, and stopped. Because they are guilty of ongoing death-dealing for the world’s climate: climacide.

Climacide: Survival Rebranding David Underhill 2019

It is no exaggeration to say that within Gen Z there is now the vanguard of a global movement challenging all the forces that are causing humans to commit climacide and ecocide.

Generation symbiocene 2019