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greenlash en · NOUN

Blend of green + backlash.

(informal) A backlash against environmental concerns.
- 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. 2025 July 14, Jason Horowitz, “It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- 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. 2023 July 12, Nathalie Tocci, “After two years of real progress on climate, a European ‘greenlash’ is brewing”, in The Guardian:
- 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. 2025 April 19, Martha Gill, “There’s only one way to fight the climate greenlash: appeal to the naysayers’ self-interest”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

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