climate arson

English

Noun

climate arson (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) Intentional acceleration of climate change.
   • 2019 September 4, Joe Cortright, “Highway to Hell: Climate denial at the TRB”, in City Observatory‎:

     The Transportation Research Board, nominally an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, is engaged in technocratic climate arson with its call for further highway expansion and more car travel.

   • 2020 September 9, Paul Waters-Smith, “Trump’s Corrosive Values Will Spread”, in Current Affairs:

     The administration’s gleeful climate arson and ‘let the weak perish’ coronavirus response in particular signal that their worldview is even darker than self-interest alone.

Derived terms

• climate arsonist

Anagrams

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