The Language of Climate Politics | Dr. Genevieve Guenther, PhD

Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at The New School, where she sits on the board of the Tishman Environment and Design Center. While writing the End Climate Silence newsletter, Dr. Guenther advises NGOs, corporations, and policymakers on fossil-fuel disinformation and climate communication, and she serves as an Expert Reviewer for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Her research has appeared in both scholarly journals and media outlets such as Scientific American, The New Republic, and MSNBC, and she has been invited to speak about climate and language to audiences at Duke, Columbia, and Harvard, among other universities. She lives in New York City with her family.

Links _______________________ Genevieve Guenther: ⁠https://genevieveguenther.com/

The Book: The Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Language-Climate-Politics-Fossil-Fuel-Propaganda/dp/0197642233

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1hcQAzzFak4ITdykd5XvSX?si=c721b45ebe8e4e7a Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: ‪@utopiaisnow‬

Timestamps ____________________

0:00 - Intro

2:40 - How words construct our political imaginations

6:21 - Language is used and abused to influence how we think about the climate crisis

12:27 - Everything we experience is shaped by language

16:29 - The Language of Climate Politics

19:01 - A quick word game - How is the term ‘alarm-ism' being misused?

32:22 -  Facing the climate crisis with courage

35:20 - What language should we use to fight the climate crisis?

40:45 - Closing words