I know Russophobe is a word. It’s someone who fears or dislikes Russians.
And xenophobe is one who dislikes foreigners.
Xylophobe may be a word too, to denote anyone who hates xylophones. I don’t know why they would. I’ll check later.
If naturephobe isn’t a real word, too bad. I’m going to use it anyway.
["They must be evil. Kill them!!"]
First, I’ll use it to describe the manufacturers of Raid. Hearing their commercial last night on TV - “Kill ants outside the house before they come inside” - brought the word to mind. What if the ants just want to live outside under a cabbage? Or next door to a rhubarb plant? Must they be terminated by spraying foam down their holes? Only by other naturephobes, I guess, who don’t mind toxifying their own yard to exterminate a beneficial insect.
(Is toxifying a word? I’m not sure. If not, you heard it here first. Sorry, I digress).
Second, I’ll use to describe people like a local home builder who built “the ultimate backyard retreat/resort” three times the size of my house (he must have more money than Bill What's-his-name) that is “paved with flagstones in a random pattern.” (June 25, Homes, London Free Press)
No grass, no flowers “so we don’t get bugs back here,” (Carmine G.) says.
Carmine adds, “The deer come around often. There are also groundhogs up there - lots of things.”
Things. I think they're called animals. It's a real word.
The reporter writes that they wander over, look through the black iron fence and “check out what he’s got on his big barbeque.”
Yeah, I’m sure they do, wondering all the while why their habitat is disappearing at alarming rates.
Naturephobes are at the root of it, I think.
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