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‘Climate strike’ has been chosen as the Word of the Year

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Activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion have helped the phrase “climate strike” enter mainstream lexicon
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“Climate strike” has been chosen as the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year for 2019, amid growing concerns over global warming.

As The Guardian notes, worldwide protests over the climate crisis have been “staged from Afghanistan to Vietnam, Extinction Rebellion demonstrations stopped traffic in major cities, and Greta Thunberg called for young people to skip school to fight political inaction”.

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