ecodisaster

English

Etymology

eco- +‎ disaster

Noun

ecodisaster (plural ecodisasters)

1. An ecological disaster.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     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.

   • 2007 November 7, Barnaby J. Feder, “Aiding the Environment, a Nanostep at a Time”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Novelists like Michael Crichton have imagined nanoscale robots creating an ecodisaster.

Translations

ecological disaster

• Finnish: ekokatastrofi (fi)