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→Glossary: How we talk about environmental sustainability: added clarifying language
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'''Climate crisis. Climate emergency.''' | '''Climate crisis. Climate emergency.''' | ||
* Climate change | * Climate change no longer accurately depicts the urgency of the situation we’re facing as a society. We intend to acknowledge that. | ||
* That said, climate change is still the accurate scientific term to describe the changes occurring. The global rise in temperature (cf. global heating) drives and amplifies the extreme weather events we are witnessing, increasing intensity as well as frequency/duration of droughts, desertification, flooding, hurricanes, typhoons, blizzards and more. The longterm scientific observation of these events is called climate change. | |||
'''Climate denial.''' | '''Climate denial.''' | ||