Gretta-san ’s activity highlights the words of “climate strike” on Nov. 9 at 07:06
The British corporation of the publishing giant “Harper Collins” announced today that it has chosen “Climate Strike” as its word. The use of this word has increased by a factor of 100 as a result of the efforts of Swedish 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg.
The British corporation of the publishing giant “Harper Collins” announced on the 7th that the editorial department of the dictionary chose “climate strike” as its word.
The editorial department defines "climate strike" as "one of the protests that leave school and work to participate in demonstrations seeking countermeasures against climate change."
This word was registered in the dictionary after a large-scale demonstration was held in line with COP21, the UN conference on global warming countermeasures held in France four years ago.
Since then, Greta Toonberg's efforts to address global warming by closing school every Friday have spread around the world, and the usage frequency of this word has increased 100 times.
In response to this, Greta also posted on his Twitter with the hashtag “Climate strike” “I was chosen as the word of the word!” The staff of the editorial department pointed out, “It was big news that sometimes exceeded the EU withdrawal problem in the UK”.