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No more climate change: it's now a crisis
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/no-more-climate-change-its-now-a-crisis/No more climate change: it’s now a crisis
May 24th, 2019, by Alex Kirby
What’s in a name? A lot, The Guardian says: it’s ditching mentions of climate change and switching to sterner language.
LONDON, 24 May, 2019 ? Talk about climate change, and there’s a good chance that people will know what you’re referring to, even if they don’t share your concerns about it.
But for one UK-based newspaper, The Guardian, “climate change” is now frowned upon, though it’s not formally banned. The paper’s house style guide recommends that its journalists should instead use such terms as “climate crisis” and “global heating”.
The Guardian has updated the style guide to introduce terms that it thinks more accurately describe the environmental crises confronting the world. So out goes “climate change”, to be replaced by the preferred terms, “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown”. “Global heating” replaces “global warming”.
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May 24th, 2019, by Alex Kirby
What’s in a name? A lot, The Guardian says: it’s ditching mentions of climate change and switching to sterner language.
LONDON, 24 May, 2019 ? Talk about climate change, and there’s a good chance that people will know what you’re referring to, even if they don’t share your concerns about it.
But for one UK-based newspaper, The Guardian, “climate change” is now frowned upon, though it’s not formally banned. The paper’s house style guide recommends that its journalists should instead use such terms as “climate crisis” and “global heating”.
The Guardian has updated the style guide to introduce terms that it thinks more accurately describe the environmental crises confronting the world. So out goes “climate change”, to be replaced by the preferred terms, “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown”. “Global heating” replaces “global warming”.
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And will the language change spur action?
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