Why this word is great
ECOANXIETY — [Noun] A persistent dread of ecological collapse, the gnawing unease over environmental degradation and climate change. From eco- (prefix relating to the environment or ecology) + anxiety (from Latin anxietas, meaning "uneasiness, worry"), it is the shadow cast by tomorrow’s disasters. Unlike "climate grief" (which mourns what is already lost) or "solastalgia" (which aches for a transformed homeland), ecoanxiety is the hum of impending ruin—a future tense of fear. It is the taste of smoke on a summer wind, the headlines scrolling like a doomsday ticker, the way a parent’s hand tightens around a child’s at the mention of rising seas. We are haunted not by ghosts, but by what has yet to die.