That was my first bet too, but you could see it as “greed death” (justifying the /i:/) or “great death” (so /eɪ/). In fact that’s a fun aspect of this word - you can see it as multiple alternative blends with the same rough meaning.
More importantly, there is nothing we can do to cease all life on Earth. A lot of higher life forms, sure. But there are living microbes deep in the Earth’s crust. Not to mention tardigrades. They’ll live on no matter what we can achieve with our technology. You’d pretty much have to knock the Earth into the sun to kill them.
So it’s not an especially accurate word for what we can do.
That was my first bet too, but you could see it as “greed death” (justifying the /i:/) or “great death” (so /eɪ/). In fact that’s a fun aspect of this word - you can see it as multiple alternative blends with the same rough meaning.
More importantly, there is nothing we can do to cease all life on Earth. A lot of higher life forms, sure. But there are living microbes deep in the Earth’s crust. Not to mention tardigrades. They’ll live on no matter what we can achieve with our technology. You’d pretty much have to knock the Earth into the sun to kill them.
So it’s not an especially accurate word for what we can do.