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DEFINITION: An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation.
Verboticisms
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Doomonger
Created by: Rossco
Pronunciation: Doo-mon-gur
Sentence: This year's enviro-expo was full of doomongers.
Etymology: global destruction/damnation = doom + (blank)monger (purveyor of whatever)
Preachleecher
Created by: Paradox
Pronunciation:
Sentence: It has become clear that a lot of figures that demand attention for their religion or for the Earth are nothing more than preachleechers.
Etymology: Basically a combination of a preacher, someone who preaches, and a leecher, which seems pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.
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COMMENTS:
Beware: perfidious prunellas are proliferating! Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 22:00:00
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Ecoporium
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: echo-pour-ee-um
Sentence: I went to the ecoporium today. I needed to assuage my guilt from overconsumerism and fear of global destruction by indulging in some retail therapy. So I put some pure wool gloves, knitted by hand in the Gobi Desert, sailed across the ocean and delivered by Prius to the shops. I put them on my carboncredit card.
Etymology: ecology + emporium
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COMMENTS:
You have to watch out that those carboncredit cards don't catch a light a burn a hole in your pocket. - petaj, 2007-08-12: 02:44:00
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Ecounlogist
Created by: Metalflower
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When bird flu hit the world, Ecounlogists made millions of dollars by selling face masks, which didn't help at all.
Etymology: Ecologist, unlogic
Destructimination
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: destruct im in ation
Sentence: do not beleive all of the destructimination scams that people use to scare the money from us.
Etymology: destruct - destruct imin - imminent ation - destruction
Ecolojesus
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ee + col + oh + jeez + us
Sentence: Oh, don't worry about that guy - he just another ecolojesus... he's worried about the effect of dog hair on our planet.
Etymology: ecology + jesus
Terrorcorp
Created by: GreenTara
Pronunciation: Terror-Corp
Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.
Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation
Wrecksploitation
Created by: xtine
Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun
Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.
Etymology: wreckage, exploitation
Comments:
iwasatripwire - 2007-08-12: 01:27:00
repeat!