Climate policy may not have evolved much, but wider attitudes have—and with them, the language in which the issue is discussed
in the Earth’s climate requires decades of data, not just the observations of 2019 or any other single year. Climate change moves slowly, which is part of its calamitous power. Huge fires in California and Australia are probably worsened by the phenomenon—but no blaze can unequivocally be pinned on it, a fact seized on by those who would rather avoid the subject. Yet in the growing strength and coherence of climate protests, something did change discernibly in 2019.
Van Dale, a dictionary publisher, lets the Dutch-speaking public vote on its word of the year . For 2019 Belgians chose, or “buying local”. The Dutch went with an imported word that has a good case for being the winner in English, too: “boomer”. As Chloe Swarbrick, a 25-year-old member of New Zealand’s parliament, was giving an impassioned speech on the impact of climate change on her generation, she coolly dismissed a heckling older, boomer”.
The march of the climate-protest movement has led to the coining of disparaging terms by its critics. Italian, for example, has: allegedly mindless followers of Ms Thunberg . The Danish Language Council and Denmark’s national broadcaster jointly chose a similar term as their Word of the Year for 2019:, or “climate fool”, used dismissively by Pia Kjaersgaard, a right-wing Danish politician, to explain her party’s poor election performance.
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