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climate breakdown
[klahy-mit breyk-doun]
noun
the collective effects of harmful and potentially irreversible trends in climate, specifically those resulting from unchecked global warming.
In September 2023, the United Nations announced that “climate breakdown has begun.”
Word History and Origins
Origin of climate breakdown1
Example Sentences
Now, there is certainly a feeling of never having been more aware of our mortality collectively — the pandemic, of course, and facing the ongoing existential threat of climate breakdown.
Writing in the Observer, Miliband warned that an anti-net zero agenda would not only risk "climate breakdown" but "forfeit the clean energy jobs of the future".
Streeting did not halt his speech, and the woman was ushered from the hall as she continued to warn about "climate breakdown".
Last week United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the recent run of temperature records as "climate breakdown".
Last week UN chief António Guterres described the recent run of temperature records as "climate breakdown".
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