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In today’s installment of Poorly-Worded Headlines, let’s take a look at this gem of a link by The Guardian:

Uhh…isn’t the decrease in carbon emissions a good thing? So what’s up with using the word “drastic” to describe this phenomenon? “Drastic” has negative connotations, and if you weren’t aware of global warming and the devastating effects it has on the environment, you’d read this link description and think, “Oh no…a dip in carbon emissions must be a bad thing!”

And I’m guessing someone over at The Guardian must have realized this as well because the actual title of the article is this:

I see someone found their thesaurus. It was probably in a trash fire that conveniently burned away neutral words like “significant” and “substantial.”