Language Is the Latest Weapon Against the Climate Emergency

A former ‘Guardian’ journalist on how revisions to the British paper’s style guide can alter our view of the climate crisis

Erica Buist
OneZero
Published in
4 min readMay 17, 2019

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TThe language of our impending environmental disaster is changing. In a note to staff, the Guardian on Friday announced it was responding to increasing concern…

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Erica Buist
OneZero

Writer, journalist, author. First book THIS PARTY’S DEAD coming in Feb 2021 from Unbound. Preorder: unbound.com/books/deathtivals