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The language of ever rising  temperatures on  Planet Earth<\/a><\/strong> seems to have been rampant recently\u2014 well, or shall we say , the language situation seems to be well \u2018heating up\u2019, pardon my pun. In the early years of the 21st century,  the term \u201cclimate change<\/a>\u201d was recommended since it sounded less scary and intimidating than the eerie-sounding \u201cglobal warming<\/a>\u201d. In this day and age, environmentally aware Earthlings, who do seem to care about greenhouse-gas emissions<\/strong> find both \u201cclimate change\u201d and \u201cglobal warming\u201d too cozy, carefree, and convenient, so they tend to prefer a number of other related words or collocations such as \u201cclimate emergency<\/a>\u201d \u201cglobal heating<\/a>\u201d,  \u201cclimate breakdown\u201d. Some eco alarmists seem to be using the term  \u201cclimate apocalypse\u201d which is to most people an overkill. Given that the word \u201capocalypse<\/a>\u201d comes from the Ancient Greek which stands for \u201cdisclosure\u201d or \u201crevelation\u201d.  This word may well be a very good linguistic choice to describe the never-ending news about raging forest fires and melting ice shelves we are being bombarded with on a regular daily basis, regrettably though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is an evident year-on-year increase in the use for global weather and climate-related vocabulary. World reputed dictionaries keep coming up with new climate vocabularies such as Collins’s 2019 Word of the Year, \u201cclimate strike<\/a>\u201d, which refers to a plethora of worldwide protests and environmental movements. The oft-cited collocation \u201cclimate strike\u201d was first coined in 2015 for the environmental protest in Paris of the same year, in the wake of Greta Thunberg<\/a><\/strong> from Sweden and her apparently superb work.  Her image and persona has skyrocketed into the limelight. She is the world\u2019s most famous and infamous example of a \u201cclimate activist\u201d, which is yet another collocation in frequent use. She appears to be particularly popular amongst both young and the middle-aged woke individuals but some tend to think that the whole  lot suffers from so-called \u201cclimate anxiety<\/strong>\u201d or \u201ceco-anxiety<\/strong>\u201d, defined as \u201ca level of psychological harm or  stress caused by concern for the environment and the future doom and gloom \u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most western elites seem to be accepting climate concerns, generally speaking, You may have noticed yet another phrase being used far too often not to be noticed, ‘net zero<\/strong>\u2018 which refers to a state in which the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced by removal out of the atmosphere. The term net zero is rather significant because \u2013 for CO2 at least \u2013 this is the state at which global warming stops. Another useful and hugely important lexical chunk is depletion of ozone layer, which is the thinning of the ozone layer present in the upper atmosphere but for some people, it is no skin off their nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The societal elites in the West seem to be committed to \u201cnet zero\u201d which is a part of any \u201cGreen New Deal<\/strong>\u201d, a new trend on the horizon used to describe political projects <\/strong>that make the environment pivotal to rules, regulations, and legislations in general, normally referred to as a \u201cgreen agenda<\/a>\u201d. This mirrors a reemergence of the word \u201cgreen\u201d itself to refer to both environmental issues and environmentalists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental issues have been associated to the color green <\/strong>since the early 1970s: in Germany, public concern about nuclear power stations gave rise to the formation of such groups as Gr\u00fcne Aktion Zukunft (Green Campaign for the Future); whereas a smallish group of green activists in the USA sailed to Alaska in 1971  so as to try and prevent a nuclear-weapons test. Their ship was named the \u201cGreenpeace<\/a>\u201d, and alas a new organization was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global warming appears to have reached a tipping point<\/a> in public acceptance, scientifically speaking. Yet  it keeps causing political controversies globally.  On one hand,  \u201cextinction<\/a>\u201d is a buzzword in the English-speaking world , which comes from Latin language for extinguishing, putting out, or quenching such a fire or a light). That word is conveniently used in the name for the Extinction Rebellion movement of activists.  the Extinction  in environmental context refers to the dying of all remaining members of  certain species, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me introduce another relevant word \u201cecocide<\/a>\u201d, a neologism for the complete destruction of an ecosystem or other part of nature, is also on the increase)  FWIW, any noun in English language ending with – cide refers to murder, killing, death caused by  serious  reasons or factors  at work.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever  growing number of people are painfully aware of \u201csingle-use<\/strong><\/a>\u201d items (particularly  single-use plastics<\/a>, now regarded as too extravagant of the eco deplorables spoilt for choice )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since last year there has been a social-media trend for clearing litter from public spaces and posting photographs of the result called:  the hashtag #trashtagcalled <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, a growing number of level-headed people are also calling out  \u201ceco-fascists<\/strong>\u201d  because of their disdain for climate activists by associating them to totalitarian and authoritarian political movements in history to protest their alleged (though not much shown) wish to control all aspects of our modern lives. Such skeptics, even though they might be yet another King Canute trying to turn the tide of apparent social progress but we are still to see what the future holds for us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cover image: photo via Canva PRO<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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