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名詞

doomism (uncountable)

1. (climate change) The belief that serious damage from climate change is unavoidable.

   Coordinate terms: climate denialism, delayism

   • 2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Plenty of Gen Zers are still optimistic about the climate crisis and recognize an inherent fallacy within doomism.

   • 2020, Ketan Joshi, Windfall: Unlocking a fossil-free future‎^[2], →ISBN:

     Both denial and doomism serve the purpose of creating a justification for inaction, but doomism serves those who can't stomach the fever swamps of denialism.

   • 2021, Michael E. Mann, The New Climate War‎^[3], PublicAffairs, →ISBN:

     Finally, and most significantly, doomism has a strange view on the escapability of climate change.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:doomism.

関連する語

• doomerism
• doomer
• doomist
• doomster

参考

• deep adaptation