Ecophagy
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Ecophagy is a term coined by Robert Freitas that means the consumption of an ecosystem. It derives .
Freitas used the term to describe a scenario involving molecular nanotechnology gone awry. In this situation (called the grey goo scenario) out-of-control self-replicating nanorobots consume entire ecosystems, resulting in global ecophagy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ecophagy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.