It is clarified that the shortlist for the nomination also included the phrase “climate action”, “climate denial”, “climate denial”, “eco-anxiety”, “extinction” and “ shame from flight ”(flight shame).
“When we looked at the facts, it became obvious that climate issues were in every lexical unit we worked with,” said Catherine Connor Martin, editor of the Oxford Dictionary.
Previously, the British English Dictionary Collins English Dictionary chose the climate strike of the year as climate strike (“climate strike”).