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Dr. Genevieve Guenther@doctorvive.bsky.social |
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Founding Director, End Climate Silence | Author, *The Language of Climate Politics*
PREORDER here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-language-of-climate-politics-fossil-fuel-propaganda-and-how-to-fight-it-genevieve-guenther/20688378
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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I talk about these economics in chapter 2 of this: The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It a.co/d/016Zztan
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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...an absolute windfall for the majority of Americans, whose real incomes will rise due to clean energy zeroing out their electricity, heating, and transportation bills, along with increased public health from cleaner air and water.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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And this vision of the future can be connected to Americans' current struggles, because food prices are rising partly due to climate change — housing costs too, through rising insurance rates — and decarbonization will be...
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
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🚨My book is online!🚨 "Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice" This was a journey & labor of love to clarify what climate coloniality is & how to decolonize climate justice. Thanks to many for their support! Details below.🧵
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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This is so useful! I followed a bunch of great folks. Thank you!
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Costa Samaras
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Read this great thread below. We can build a climate community on Bluesky. Here’s a starter pack for folks to follow some people who work on climate. go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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So Trump is claiming he's not on board with Project 2025. Ok, so now it's over to the New York Times, who will surely assign its political reporters the investigation that describes the depth of this lie.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Oh I also read all their right-wing commentary. (But not David Brooks, who's too insufferable to be read, period.)
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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I couldn't find it when I looked 🤷♀️
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Huh, I don't!
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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right wing think tanks are making thinly veiled threats of political violence, the Supreme Court has neutralized the regulatory power of broad swaths of government, and the fate of the executive branch depends on whether the 81 year old atop it can learn to breakdance or something. Happy July 4th
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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QED
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isaac
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At this point what is too radical when the goal is to protect as many people as possible for as long as we can? When the alternative is clearly fascism?
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alex 🌴🥥
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let me know if y'all need anything while i'm there!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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This email Gavin Newsom sent his supporters today is hilariously ambiguous.
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Faine Greenwood
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Winifred Burton Updates
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Some of the nihilism I'm seeing on the skyline is why Black people say y'all wouldn't last an hour as us, btw.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.
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Chris Hayes
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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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I am one of the people who thinks the benefits of the tax credits in the IRA have been way overhyped, but I realized just now that the law may actually save climate policymaking in the US by explicitly defining CO2 as a pollutant that the EPA can regulate under the Clean Air Act.
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Faine Greenwood
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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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This headline definitely buried the lede.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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So it turns out that Trump is going to pull the US out of not just the Paris Agreement, but the entire UNFCCC regime.
Needless to say this would be apocalyptic.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Laura Helmuth
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There are “no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities. None. Zero.” But oil & gas & shipping interests sure want you to think wind energy is what's killing whales 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...
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Iron Spike
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Evergreen advice. It’s over when you give up and not a moment before. The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, too.
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Jamison Foser
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Trump, Who Incited Insurrection After Losing In 2020, Refuses To Say He Will Accept Outcome of 2024 Election there's your fucking headline.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Full press release here:
www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/new...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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I was JUST saying last night that we need an answer to answer the obvious question: are the ff industry and the petrostates manipulating supply to punish govts w high prices for implementing green policies? And lo! Senator Whitehouse & the Budget Committee are ON THE CASE ! 🙌
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Wait, there's gelato in Germany?
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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... extracting, twisting, and deploying words to entrap advocates into unwittingly normalizing fossil fuel disinformation. This dynamic turns fossil fuel propaganda into a bipartisan consensus, portraying it as common sense. [done]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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... from language produced over the decades by these groups themselves. Fossil energy interests have mined the language of climate science, economics, and technology for material they can use to spread denial ... [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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— not just by fossil energy interests but also by scientists, economists, journalists, politicians, and sometimes even activists, all of whom sincerely intend to advance climate solutions. That’s because these terms and the ideas they convey are appropriated... [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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But what gives fossil fuel propaganda its power over climate politics is that it’s repeated, in echoes and fragments and sometimes in its entirety, by people on both sides of the supposedly partisan climate change divide — [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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either because climate change won’t be that destructive or, in some versions of the story, because the world can keep using coal, oil, and gas and still halt global heating anyway. It would be bad enough if this narrative were being repeated only on the right. [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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This narrative is designed to encourage the dangerous belief that the world does not need essentially to stop using fossil fuels — [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Besides, America should not act unilaterally on the climate crisis while emissions are rising in India and China.” [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Human flourishing relies on the economic growth enabled by fossil fuels, so we need to keep using them and deal with climate change by fostering technological innovation and increasing our resilience. [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Together these terms weave a narrative that goes something like this: “Yes, climate change is real, but calling it an existential threat is just alarmist. And, anyway, phasing out coal, oil, and gas would cost us too much. [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Yes! Here's the text of what's in the photo: This propaganda is spun out of six key terms that dominate the language of climate politics: alarmist, cost, growth, “India and China,” innovation, and resilience. [continued in next reply]
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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Yeah, the link originally directed you to Bookshop, but they are having technical issues and my book is not currently appearing there, except as a mis-priced audiobook. So TNR changed it to Amazon.
Oxford has multiple buy links, FWIW.
pages.oup.com/trade/cus/86...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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thank you!
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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The excerpt is here 👇newrepublic.com/article/182144/climate-denial-language-oil And you can order the book here 👇amazon.com/dp/0197642233?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp Thank you for reading! I I dearly hope you find the book useful. 💚 3/3
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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These messages increase support for phasing out coal, oil, and gas among alarmed and concerned Democrats AND Republicans by up to ten points.
That's a real shift.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther
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You can now read an excerpt of my book, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda & How to Fight It* in @tnr.bsky.social!
Here's the gist.👇
And my book offers powerful new ways to talk about the #ClimateCrisis that will help create transformative change.
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