doomwatch

English

Etymology

doom + watch

Noun

doomwatch (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly attributive) A pessimistic outlook on the future.
    • 1986, W T S Gould, Richard Lawton, Planning for Population Change
      [] using linear projections of current high levels of population growth and consumption of raw materials produced doomwatch forecasts.
    • 2005, Nancy Jack Todd, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design
      Yet however essential it may have been to changing assumptions about energy use, protest and doomwatch activism was never New Alchemy's primary focus.

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