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