The Uninhabitable Earth Glossary

by David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth Glossary

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Kaleidoscope

A kind of optical instrument

Genocide

Mass murder, annihilation

Populist

A political person who stands by the people being wronged by the elite group

Thawing

The process of melting ice

Catastrophic

Tragic, disastrous

Patagonia

A country where there are many hill areas

Heralded

Announced, indicated

Banal

Vapid, stock

Eerily

In a frightening way

Disequilibrium

Lack of stability

Prophecy

Prognosis, divine prediction

Consensus

Concord, harmony, unison

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