Genevieve Guenther Explained

Genevieve Juliette Guenther
Organization:End Climate Silence
The New School
Education:Columbia University
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Website:https://www.genevieveguenther.com/

Genevieve Juliette Guenther is an American author and climate change activist. A former Renaissance scholar,[1] she is the founding director of the media watchdog organization End Climate Silence.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] She is currently affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.[8]

Oxford University Press published her climate book The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It. The book debunks the new climate denial, threaded into science, economics, and geopolitics, that says we can keep using coal, oil, and methane gas and still halt global heating anyway. The book offers practical tips and clear, actionable messages to counter this denial.

Early life and education

Guenther received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University[9] and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, in Renaissance literature.

Career

Literature

Guenther started her career as a tenure-track English professor at the University of Rochester. Her book on English Literature, "Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance," analyzes works by Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

Climate-related work

Guenther writes scholarly and popular articles about the language of climate change, media coverage of climate change, and the cultural aspects of the climate crisis (see Bibliography below for examples).

She writes a weekly newsletter about climate disinformation in the language of climate politics and the news media, where she recommends effective climate talking-points and climate actions to help counter that disinformation.

She is the founding director of the volunteer organization End Climate Silence, which advocates for increased coverage of climate change in news media, and has been cited as an "incredibly effective advocate for persuading journalists to include the climate emergency in their stories."[10] The group's advisory board is Brad Johnson, Michael Mann, Peter Kalmus, and Margaret Klein Salamon.[11]

Her work has been noted for her criticism of fossil fuel funding for university research, as well as her criticism of discussions (such as What If We Stopped Pretending?)[12] that frame climate change as an "apocalypse" that "we can't prevent".[13] [14] Guenther has noted that technologies are available, at least in "research, development, and demonstration" phases, for decarbonizing the economy, "with the right policies."[15] Guenther has also been noted for praising the movie Don't Look Up as being useful in raising "awareness about the terrifying urgency of the climate crisis."

Guenther has been an Expert Reviewer of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.[9]

Oxford University Press published The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It in July 2024. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called the book a "revelatory study."[16] The Los Angeles Review of Books called the book a "manifesto and de facto minicourse in critical thinking, an often uncanny hybrid that nevertheless equips and empowers climate communicators to expose fallacies and disinformation in fossil-fuel interests’ rhetoric."https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/words-versus-words-fire-with-fire/

Media appearances

Guenther has been interviewed by a number of media outlets.[17] In 2018 she appeared on the CNN show Reliable Sources.[18] In 2019 she was interviewed by Brian Lehrer on "The Brian Lehrer Show," on WNYC public radio.[19] In October 2020 her work was profiled in The New Yorker. In 2021 Guenther was interviewed on a climate-focused episode of The New York Times podcast, "The Argument."[20] In the UK, she is a repeated guest on the BBC.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172yk74q6m1lbkhttps://wspartners.stage.bbc.com/episode/w172z07bqhlr31p

Bibliography

Books

Selected Essays

External links

Notes and References

  1. How Should the Media Talk About Climate Change? . . October 17, 2020 . 2022-12-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20220811084040/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-should-the-media-talk-about-climate-change . August 11, 2022 . live.
  2. Web site: EndClimateSilence.org . EndClimateSilence.org . 2022-12-11.
  3. Web site: 'It's now or never': UN climate report's 4 urgent takeaways . https://web.archive.org/web/20220405004055/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/now-or-never-un-climate-report-urgent-takeaways . dead . April 5, 2022 . . 2022-04-04 . 2022-12-11 .
  4. Book: The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet . . 2021-01-12 . . 9781541758223 . 67.
  5. Web site: Don't Just Watch: Team Behind 'Don't Look Up' Urges Climate Action . . 2022-01-11 . 2022-12-23 .
  6. Web site: Time to Panic: The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us. . David Wallace-Wells. . 2019-02-16 . 2022-12-23 .
  7. Web site: Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics . 2022-03-21 . The Guardian.
  8. Web site: [Cross-Post] "Our House is on Fire": Faculty at The New School on our Climate Emergency ]. tishmancenter.org . 2019-09-24 . 2022-12-11.
  9. Web site: Interview: Five Questions With Genevieve Guenther on Climate Communication . amasia.vc . 2022-12-19 . 2022-12-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221223210931/https://amasia.vc/blog/interview-five-questions-with-genevieve-guenther-on-climate-communication . dead .
  10. Book: Facing the Climate Emergency . New Society Publishers . . Molly Gagedate . 2020-04-21 . 9780865719415.
  11. Web site: About . End Climate Silence.
  12. Web site: What If We Stopped Pretending . . 2019-09-08 . New Yorker.
  13. Book: The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet . . 2021-01-12 . . 9781541758223 . 188.
  14. Web site: Jonathan Franzen's made-up climate change model sparks online pile-on . 2019-09-09 . The Guardian.
  15. Web site: 'It's now or never': UN climate report's 4 urgent takeaways . https://web.archive.org/web/20220405004055/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/now-or-never-un-climate-report-urgent-takeaways . dead . April 5, 2022 . . 2022-04-04 . 2022-12-11 .
  16. Web site: The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It . 2024-05-01 . Publishers Weekly.
  17. Web site: Press – Genevieve Guenther. 2022-12-21 .
  18. Web site: How media can improve climate change coverage. cnn.com . 2018-10-14 . 2022-12-20 .
  19. Web site: How Can the Media Cover Climate Change Better? . wnyc.org . 2019-09-19 . 2022-12-20 .
  20. Web site: Got Climate Doom? Here's What You Can Do to Actually Make a Difference . . 2021-11-10 . 2022-12-19 .

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