I can think of few publications of worth further to the left than the U.K. Guardian. It occasionally does good journalism, after all, and if you want to find out what British leftists who aren’t thinking for themselves are thinking, there are few sources that provide such a detailed guide.
This may have contributed to why I wasn’t entirely surprised when The Guardian became one of the first major media outlets to officially ditch the terms “climate change” and “global warming” because they weren’t scary enough.
“The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world,” environment editor Damian Carrington announced in a piece on Friday.
“Instead of ‘climate change’ the preferred terms are ‘climate emergency, crisis or breakdown’ and ‘global heating’ is favoured over ‘global warming’, although the original terms are not banned.”
Well, big day for Newspeak at the Ingsoc headquarters. Pray tell, why are we making this change, U.K. Guardian?