Dr Richard Hil (progressive author and adjunct sociology professor,Griffith University, Queensland, Australia) and Dr Gideon Polya (writer, author and former associate professor of biochemistry , La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) (2019): “The silencing of the climate emergency, and what we should do about it” (New Matilda, 5 March 2019: https://newmatilda.com/2019/03/05/silencing-climate-emergency/ ) critically asserts that: “We also need to reframe our language and acknowledge the potential for what many commentators and climate victims (for instance, in the Marshall Islands) refer to as “climate genocide”. References also abound to “climate violence”, “violent policy making”, and increasingly, “climate criminals”, with many legal experts linking climate policy failures to specific breaches of environmental and other laws. Increasingly, there are calls for politicians, corporate and media chiefs to be held to account so that there is no statute of limitations and no place to hide for those promoting policies and actions that lead to speciescide, ecocide, sociocide, omnicide and terracide – words that have begun to spill into the public sphere… The struggle over language, and its place in the domain of common sense, is integral to the struggle against violent power. Breaking the silence of the climate emergency is key to our future survival” (Richard Hil and Gideon Polya, “The silencing of the climate emergency, and what we should do about it”, New Matilda, 5 March 2019: https://newmatilda.com/2019/03/05/silencing-climate-emergency/ )