(baseball) filet de protection. « The ball hit the backstop after the batter missed the swing. »
fig: filet de sécurité. « The company's savings served as a backstop during the financial crisis. »
Backstop technology : technologie salvatrice. Emploi ironique dans le contexte du technosolutionisme. « Many people still think that we will discover a perfectly clean technology, which will allow us to have unlimited energy, and to continue our way of life (ecocide). This clean technology is what Nordhaus calls backstop technology. This famous saving technology that will save us all. »