climate strike

English

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)

1. A protest in which people absent themselves from professional or educational activities in order to join demonstrations calling for action to counter climate change.

   Synonym: school strike for the climate, Fridays for Future

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

Chinese: Mandarin: 气候罢工 (qìhòubàgōng) Dutch: klimaatstaking f Finnish: ilmastolakko (fi) French: grève pour le climat f German: Klimastreik m Japanese: 気候ストライキ (きこうストライキ, kikōsutoraiki) Korean: 기후 파업 (gihu pa'eop) Polish: strajk klimatyczny m Russian: климати́ческая забасто́вка f (klimatíčeskaja zabastóvka)

See also

• global warming
• climate change

Further reading

• climate strike on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “climate strike”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Johanne Elster Hanson (7 November 2019), “‘Climate strike’ named 2019 word of the year by Collins Dictionary”, in The Guardian‎