Oxford: Bringing positive news to the environment lovers, Oxford Dictionaries disclosed ‘climate emergency’, once relatively obscure, as one of the most used words among English speakers in 2019.
Oxford Dictionaries, published by Oxford University Press, describes climate change as “a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it.”
According to the dictionary’s data “climate emergency” is up 10,789 percent previous year, a pleasant note indicating the people’s growing concern towards the issues related with global warming and climate change.
Nearly one year back, i.e. in September 2018, António Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General had declared that climate change is “the defining issue of our time,” adding that humanity faces “a direct existential threat.”
A study made by a group of more than 11,000 scientists had warned about ‘climate emergency’ earlier this month and had added that the scientists have “a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat.”
‘Toxic’, ‘youth quake’ and ‘post-truth’ were the words of the 2018, 2017 and 2016 respectively.
Oxford finds the word of the year by observing the increasing use of the word in the 12 months. Oxford started declaring the word of the year since 2004.
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