{"id":119886,"date":"2019-11-21T01:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/21\/oxford-dictionaries-declares-climate-emergency-the-word-of-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T01:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:31:19","slug":"oxford-dictionaries-declares-climate-emergency-the-word-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=119886","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Dictionaries declares &#039;climate emergency&#039; the word of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usage of the term increased 100-fold in the space of 12 months, dictionary saysOxford Dictionaries has declared \u201cclimate emergency\u201d the word of the year for 2019, following a hundred-fold increase in usage that it says demonstrated a \u201cgreater immediacy\u201d in the way we talk about the climate.Defined as \u201ca situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it\u201d, Oxford said the words soared from \u201crelative obscurity\u201d to \u201cone of the most prominent \u2013 and prominently debated \u2013 terms of 2019.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/nov\/21\/oxford-dictionaries-declares-climate-emergency-the-word-of-2019\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Dictionaries declares &#039;climate emergency&#039; the word of 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usage of the term increased 100-fold in the space of 12 months, dictionary saysOxford Dictionaries has declared \u201cclimate emergency\u201d the word of the year for 2019, following a hundred-fold increase in usage that it says demonstrated a \u201cgreater immediacy\u201d in the way we talk about the climate.Defined as \u201ca situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}