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| − | '''Climate crisis''' and '''Climate | + | '''Climate crisis''', '''Climate emergency''' and '''Climate catastrophe''' are terms describing [[global warming]] and [[climate change]], and their consequences. |
| − | The terms have been used to describe the threat of [[global warming]] to the planet, and to urge aggressive [[climate change]] mitigation. For example, in the journal ''BioScience'', a January 2020 article | + | The terms have been used to describe the threat of [[global warming]] to the planet, and to urge aggressive [[climate change]] mitigation. For example, in the journal ''BioScience'', a January 2020 article, stated that "the climate crisis has arrived" and that an "immense increase of scale in endeavours to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis."<ref>''[https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/8/5610806 "World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency"]''</ref> |
| − | The term Climate crisis or [[Climate | + | The term Climate crisis, [[Climate emergency]] or [[Climate catastrophe]] is applied by those who "believe it evokes the gravity of the threats the planet faces from continued greenhouse gas emissions and can help spur the kind of political willpower that has long been missing from climate advocacy". They believe that, much as "[[global warming]]" drew out more emotional engagement and support for action than "[[climate change]]", calling [[climate change]] a crisis could have an even stronger impact.<ref>''[https://thefifthestate.com.au/urbanism/climate-change-news/climate-crisis-whats-it-good-for/ "Climate crisis – what’s it good for?"]''</ref> |
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Climate crisis, Climate emergency and Climate catastrophe are terms describing global warming and climate change, and their consequences.
The terms have been used to describe the threat of global warming to the planet, and to urge aggressive climate change mitigation. For example, in the journal BioScience, a January 2020 article, stated that "the climate crisis has arrived" and that an "immense increase of scale in endeavours to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis."[1]
The term Climate crisis, Climate emergency or Climate catastrophe is applied by those who "believe it evokes the gravity of the threats the planet faces from continued greenhouse gas emissions and can help spur the kind of political willpower that has long been missing from climate advocacy". They believe that, much as "global warming" drew out more emotional engagement and support for action than "climate change", calling climate change a crisis could have an even stronger impact.[2]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Dale Vince | “Anyone who says the climate crisis is not happening or it's not man-made, honestly, I think they're a dangerous fool, because it's like denying the Holocaust happened” | Dale Vince | 29 June 2023 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media | Article | David Cromwell | Other than the ever-present risk of nuclear war, there is no greater threat to humanity than the climate crisis. And there is no more damning example of gaslighting by state-corporate media when they tell us we can trust governments and corporations to do what is required to avert catastrophe. | |
| Document:The dirty secret Europe is hiding at the COP27 climate summit | Article | 16 November 2022 | Jonathan Cook | Grand declarations at COP27 on tackling the climate emergency are sabotaged by the Energy Charter Treaty from the 1990s that sees European nations held to ransom by the energy companies |
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