Meaning of greenlash | Babel Free

Definitions

A backlash against environmental concerns.

informal

Examples

“As EU countries such as Spain, Slovakia and Poland prepare⟳ for elections later this year, and with European parliament elections in 2024, there is a real risk⟳ that rightwing, populist parties will latch on to the “greenlash” and surge back in the polls.”

“Unlike in many countries in Europe, where motorists, farmers and rightwing groups have⟳ been driving anti-climate action, the UK has long enjoyed a comfortable political consensus on the subject. But conditions for a greenlash are assembling.”

“Spain knows it has a problem. In a time of right-wing opposition to Europe’s environment-protecting Green Deal⟳ regulations — “greenlash,” it has been called — the progressive government of Spain has embraced an ecological transition.”

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