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climate crisis
[ klahy-mit krahy-sis ]
noun
- a critical situation in which long-term change in the earth’s climate has severe adverse effects on the environment, necessitating immediate and bold countermeasures:
Brewers are taking notice as the climate crisis decimates Europe’s barley crops.
Word History and Origins
Origin of climate crisis1
Example Sentences
In recent years, the centre has commissioned fourteen exhibitions by diverse international artists - including Adham Faramawy, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye and Abi Palmer - which have explored themes from climate crisis to materiality.
To hear Francis tell it, fighting poverty and confronting the climate crisis go hand in hand.
Perhaps even worse, Trump and his lackeys are dismantling the scientific institutions that have taught us — and continue to teach us — much of what we know about the climate crisis.
But what Francis understood — and what I personally found so inspiring about his decision to write “Laudato Si” — was that talking about the climate crisis is everyone’s job now.
He asked the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics to open their eyes to the connections between the climate crisis, poverty and selfishness.
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