Words of Warming

What Is a Climate Emergency?

38 governments around the world have declared one

Drew Costley
Future Human
Published in
1 min readJan 25, 2021

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Words of Warming is a new series from Future Human defining the language of climate change and environmental and climate justice.

Definition of climate emergency

: the state we’re currently in, where the deadly consequences of global warming predicted by scientists have already started occurring in ecosystems around the world; used by activists, politicians, and scholars to…

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Drew Costley
Future Human

Drew Costley is a Staff Writer at FutureHuman covering the environment, health, science and tech. Previously @ SFGate, East Bay Express, USA Today, etc.