Why this word is great
ANTHROPARCHY — [Noun] A social system of attitudes, practices, and institutions through which the natural world is dominated to the benefit of humans. From anthrop- ("human") + -archy ("rule"). Coined by Erika Cudworth (2005). Unlike "anthropocentrism" (which frames the world through human eyes) or "ecocide" (which names the aftermath), anthroparchy is the machinery itself—the gears of deforestation, the steel tendons of industrial agriculture, the cold calculus of cost-benefit analyses that reduce rivers to plumbing and forests to lumber yards. It is the smell of freshly poured asphalt where there was once soil, the sight of a lone tree standing in a leveled lot, and the sound of earthmoving equipment drowning out birdsong—the quiet violence of a species convinced it is entitled to reshape the world in its own image.