Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Vocabulary: "biodiversicide"

Today I discovered a new word which is tremendously useful: "biodiversicide." I gather that it refers to the culpable reduction of multiple species in a life zone, with the concurrent effect of weaking the biosphere as a whole. Homo sapiens is clearly guilty of this. No doubt the term will also be of use to science fiction writers who wish to explore future legal or moral issues relating to the appropriate or inappropriate usage of extraterrestrial biospheres.

Food Security: Neither Technology Nor Free Markets Nor the World Bank
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041608G.shtml
Editorials by Anne Bauer and Christian Pees in France's business paper, Les Echos, torpedo, respectively, GMO and unregulated markets as the answer to food security, while Le Grand Soir publishes an Olivier Chantry article accusing multinational seed companies and the World Bank of "Biodiversicide."
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What's the difference between "biodiversicide" and "ecocide"? Or are they just synonyms for the same concept?
I think "ecocide" would be broader -- the collapse of an ecosystem -- and could be caused by different thing. "Biodiversicide" seems narrower, referring to one specific (repeated) type of damage: a lowering of the number of species found.
Oooh, new words!