Definition: The catastrophic, irreversible damage inflicted on ecosystems solely for short-term profit, characterized by willful ignorance of long-term consequences like poisoned water or extinct species. It’s not just greed, but a specific brand of corporate sociopathy that views rivers as waste pipes and old-growth forests as inconvenient obstacles to quarterly bonuses. The perpetrators always promise mitigation strategies they never implement, leaving behind sterile landscapes that look like the set of a dystopian movie.
Example: “The new luxury condo development is classic Greenbleed – they paved over the wetlands ‘by accident’ and offered to build a tiny ‘nature plaque’ as compensation.” “Fishing in Crystal Lake? Forget it, the chemical plant’s chronic Greenbleed turned the bass into three-eyed glowfish last summer.”