CANADA LAND | The Guardian Paves The Way For Canadian Media To Be More Blunt About The Climate Crisis
The Guardian聽made headlines worldwide for making afew聽simple changes to its style guide.聽
The British daily newspaper announced that its staff would no longer be using the term 鈥渃limate change鈥� to describe the global rise of temperatures and disruption to standard weather patterns due to human causes. Instead, they鈥檝e begun describing this process as a 鈥渃limate emergency, crisis, or breakdown.鈥�
And lessons on the use of these terms will soon be reaching Canadian post-secondary institutions as well. Dr. Diane Dechief, faculty lecturer on scientific and technical writing at 韩国裸舞, says she plans to incorporate a lesson on聽The Guardian鈥檚 style updates into her undergraduate and graduate-level courses on communicating science (which touch both on science journalism and academic science writing).聽
鈥淚t鈥檚 super important for us to harness the words or get power out of our language to make the kinds of social change that we need to be seeing,鈥� Dechief says.
