climate strike
English
Climate Strike in Cleveland
Etymology
Firstly coined in 2015 during a mass demonstration at UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, the expression took off only in 2018 after the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg started skipping school on Fridays in order to protest in front of the national parliament. In September 2019 around six million people joined the climate strike worldwide.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈklaɪmət straik/
Noun
climate strike (plural climate strikes)
- A protest in which people absent themselves from professional or educational activities in order to join demonstrations calling for action to counter climate change.
Derived terms
- climate striker
Translations
a protest in form of skipping school or work to draw public's attention to the problem of climate crisis
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See also
Further reading
climate strike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “climate strike”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- Johanne Elster Hanson (2019 November 7) “‘Climate strike’ named 2019 word of the year by Collins Dictionary”, in The Guardian
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