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- noun The total
extinction of thehuman species as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to human extinction throughnuclear warfare , but it can also refer to such extinction through other means such as globalanthropogenic ecologicalcatastrophe and Lethargica
Etymologies
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Examples
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If we realize that genocide and, what many experts are calling omnicide eventual human extinction by human action - is taking place?
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Ecocide, or perhaps biocide, or perhaps omnicide, would be an act exterminating not just all humans, but the entire circle of life on planet earth itself.
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But if we aspire now to equal the imagination and the will of Petr Ginz, and if we endeavor now to complete the mission on which Ilan Ramon embarked, then -- even if another great holocaust comes and even if despite all our struggles it brings to our fair planet not just genocide but specicide or omnicide -- we still can.
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We must act in our own self-defense "immediately, before humankind exterminates itself in an act of nuclear omnicide."
Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law" 2008
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We must act in our own self-defense "immediately, before humankind exterminates itself in an act of nuclear omnicide."
Francis A. Boyle's "Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law" 2008
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We must act in our own self-defense immediately, before humankind exterminates itself in an act of nuclear omnicide.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Francis A. Boyle��s ��Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law�� 2008
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We must act in our own self-defense immediately, before humankind exterminates itself in an act of nuclear omnicide.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Francis A. Boyle��s ��Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law�� 2008
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We sit on a 30 minute decision to death by nuclear conflagration, as part of the overall strategy of genocide, more nearly approximating omnicide.
Crime of the Century: Are Bush & Cheney Planning Early Attack on Iran? 2006
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'There is something totally absurd and even criminal,' writes Russian policy expert Sergei Plekhanov, 'about the fact that the giant machines of nuclear omnicide, created in the last century on the basis of bankrupt Cold War premises, are still standing ready for war, 24/7, waiting for orders from their commanders in chief.'
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qms commented on the word omnicide
The Goblin-in-chief in his pride
Thinks science is safely defied.
Grotesque though his stance is
Still warming advances,
Foreshadowing brute omnicide.
April 5, 2017