This new sense of collective urgency was recently praised by Sir David Attenborough, who recently said “the world is coming to its senses”.

The Oxford Dictionary chooses a word with “lasting potential” annually to “reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the passing year”. Last year they opted for “toxic”, while 2017’s word of the year was “youthquake”.

And, for those arguing about the semantics of having two words instead of one, single words can have two parts – according to The Guardian.

Oxford Dictionaries has named its word of the year 2019 – and we can thank Greta Thunberg