HUMANTICIDE
HUMANTICIDE … I’m coining this term. It means the self-destructiveness leading to species suicide of the human race… HUMANTICIDE.
It is what we are engaged in.
It would be good to have a term. I think the reason we don’t has to do with people not wanting to acknowledge it. So making a term for it would be a step towards shining light into this darkness (we don’t want to see).
HUMANTICIDE
It is like the term infanticide, but gives the connotation we want — the extinction of the species of humans… HUMANTICIDE.
Ecocide is the murder of the planetary ecosystem, which includes all life on Earth. It is something we are actively engaged in, also.
Humanticide is the species extinction of ourselves. Human species suicide
Posted on January 27, 2012, in Environmentalism and tagged ecocide, extinction, humans, humanticide, infanticide, murder, species, suicide. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I agree with you 100000 percent that your new word raises awareness exactly as you say – it gives a point of focus. Words matter. Language alters perceptions. ”HUMANTICIDE” has a power to wake people up. Uncomfy as the word is. But we need to face facts. Time is running out….
This word has been sent this to Urban Dictionary, but it is not yet published.
humanticide
(n.) — the self-destructiveness of humankind leading to a possible species suicide of the entire human race in the future
sample quote: “The way things are going, the final epitaph of the human race just might be something like: they came, they saw, they committed humanticide. I’m worried that our species is hardwired for denying the inevitable!”
– overheard at a watercooler in Eugene, Oregon
submitted by sillymickel on Jan 26, 2012
tags: life, species, ecocide, genocide, infanticide