Genevieve_Guenther

Genevieve Guenther

Genevieve Guenther

American author and climate activist

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][1][3][4][5][6][7] She is currently affiliate faculty at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.[8] Her upcoming book, The Language of Climate Politics, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.[9]

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Early life and education

Guenther received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University[10] and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, in Renaissance literature.[1]

Career

Literature

Guenther started her career as a tenure-track English professor at the University of Rochester.[1] Her book, "Magical Imaginations," analyzed works by Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.[1]

Guenther has written 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).

In 2018 she founded the volunteer organization End Climate Silence, which advocates for increased coverage of climate change in news media,[1][2][4][3][5][6][7] and has been cited as an "incredibly effective advocate for persuading journalists to include the climate emergency in their stories."[11] The group's advisory board is Brad Johnson, Michael Mann, Peter Kalmus, and Margaret Klein Salamon.[12]

Her work has been noted for her criticism of fossil fuel funding for university research,[7] as well as her criticism of discussions (such as What If We Stopped Pretending?[13]) that frame climate change as an "apocalypse" that "we can't prevent".[14][15]

Guenther has been noted for praising the movie Don't Look Up as being useful in raising "awareness about the terrifying urgency of the climate crisis",[5] and for noting that technologies are available, at least in, "research, development, and demonstration" phases, for decarbonizing the economy, "with the right policies."[16] Guenther was an Expert Reviewer of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.[10]

Her upcoming book, The Language of Climate Politics, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.[9]

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.[1] In 2021 Guenther was interviewed on a climate-focused episode of The New York Times podcast, "The Argument."[20]

Bibliography

Books

  • Magical Imaginations: Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance (2012) ISBN 978-1442642416

Selected Essays

References

  1. [1]
    "How Should the Media Talk About Climate Change?". The New Yorker. October 17, 2020. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  2. [2]
    "EndClimateSilence.org". EndClimateSilence.org. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  3. [3]
    "'It's now or never': UN climate report's 4 urgent takeaways". National Geographic. 2022-04-04. Archived from the original on April 5, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  4. [4]
    Michael E. Mann (2021-01-12). The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. PublicAffairs. p. 67. ISBN 9781541758223.
  5. [5]
    "Don't Just Watch: Team Behind 'Don't Look Up' Urges Climate Action". The New York Times. 2022-01-11. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  6. [6]
    David Wallace-Wells (2019-02-16). "Time to Panic: The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  7. [7]
    "Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research, say academics". The Guardian. 2022-03-21.
  8. [8]
    "[Cross-Post] "Our House is on Fire": Faculty at The New School on our Climate Emergency". tishmancenter.org. 2019-09-24. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  9. [9]
    "Carbon Removal Isn't the Solution to Climate Change". The New Republic. 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  10. [10]
    "Interview: Five Questions With Genevieve Guenther on Climate Communication". amasia.vc. Archived from the original on 2022-12-23. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  11. [11]
    Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gagedate (2020-04-21). Facing the Climate Emergency. New Society Publishers. ISBN 9780865719415.
  12. [12]
    "About". End Climate Silence.
  13. [13]
    Jonathan Franzen (2019-09-08). "What If We Stopped Pretending". New Yorker.
  14. [14]
    Michael E. Mann (2021-01-12). The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. PublicAffairs. p. 188. ISBN 9781541758223.
  15. [15]
    "Jonathan Franzen's made-up climate change model sparks online pile-on". The Guardian. 2019-09-09.
  16. [16]
    "'It's now or never': UN climate report's 4 urgent takeaways". National Geographic. 2022-04-04. Archived from the original on April 5, 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  17. [17]
    "Press – Genevieve Guenther". Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  18. [18]
    "How media can improve climate change coverage". cnn.com. 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  19. [19]
    "How Can the Media Cover Climate Change Better?". wnyc.org. 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  20. [20]
    "Got Climate Doom? Here's What You Can Do to Actually Make a Difference". The New York Times. 2021-11-10. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
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