Why this word is great
LANDSCARRING — [Noun] The widespread and permanent disfigurement of a natural landscape. From land ("tract of the earth's surface") + scarring ("the act of leaving a lasting, disfiguring mark"). Unlike "degradation," which implies a slow, potentially reversible decline, or "erosion," a patient, natural process of wearing away, landscarring is a violent and deliberate inscription. It is the terraced gash of an open-pit mine, the raw, concentric circles of a clear-cut forest, or the stark, subsiding grid of a drained wetland—a topography not of time or tectonics, but of human hunger, etched indelibly into the skin of the earth.