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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
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Founding Director, End Climate Silence

Author, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It*

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Jun 3
I am very happy to announce that "The Language of Climate Politics" has been shortlisted for the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. 😊

I'm honored to be in the company of @akshatrathi.bsky.social, Rob Jackson, and Edward Humes!

#ClimateChange
Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability This annual award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on books that have a substantial impact on the public's understanding of these crucial issues. Announcing the 2025 Shortlist The following books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. Climate Capitalism, Akshat Rathi Into the Clear Blue Sky, Rob Jackson The Language of Climate Politics, Genevieve Guenther Total Garbage, Edward Humes
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antoniajuhasz.bsky.social
"Always let the truth get in the way of a good story, because it's no longer a good story when it's a lie." - me
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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mikehudema.bsky.social
Tiny urban forests can help #rewild urban settings and help fight #climatechange. The brainchild of the Japanese botanist Miyawaki is taking his idea global.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #forests #nature #biodiversity
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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bethsawin.bsky.social
Anger tells you there is something precious that needs your protection.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
Here's a downstream effect of the backlash against the power of the 2018-2022 global movement for decarbonization—a backlash, I believe, that was driven largely by the realization among LIBERAL elites (eg Gates) that CDR was too expensive and difficult to offset the continued use of fossil fuels.
shannonosaka.bsky.social Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 14h
The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country.

We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
This bar chart shows a decrease in mentions of 'climate' since a peak in August 2022, when Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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styrrellou.bsky.social
The most extraordinary part is how successfully these exceptionally high polluters have managed to convince relatively low emitters that climate action is aimed at making them poorer. Especially when climate inaction really is making them poorer while not affecting the Musk’s, Gates’s etc at all.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
#ClimateSky! Jean Su is here!! 🥳 Let's follow her and give her a hearty welcome 💚

bsky.app/profile/ajea...
Jean Su Follows you @ajeansu.bsky.social 3 followers 143 following o posts Energy Justice Director at Center for Biological Diversity. Based in DC. In Belem for #COP30.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
Re-upping this:

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
A graphic poster with a green, textured background. At the center is a black-and-white image of Earth. Above the planet, a small private jet flies around the Earth, leaving a dark, tangled trail. Across the middle of the image, bold white text on black rectangles reads “CLIMATE PLUNDER.” Below, smaller white text states, “How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster.” In the bottom-right corner, the Oxfam logo and the word “OXFAM” appear in white.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
Earth Can No Longer Sustain Intensive Fossil Fuel Use, President Lula tells #COP30

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.barrons.com/news/earth-c...
Earth Can No Longer Sustain Intensive Fossil Fuel Use: Lula
Earth can no longer sustain a development model based on intensive use of fossil fuels responsible for planet-harming emissions, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told a climate summit Frid...
www.barrons.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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rtakver.bsky.social
Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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vfmcneill.bsky.social
Air pollution protests in Delhi

apnews.com/article/indi...
Air pollution levels surge in India's capital, sparking rare protests
A thick layer of smog has enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, as pollution levels surge, worsening a public health crisis.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
doctorvive.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
doctorvive.bsky.social
building (and selling) massive amounts of clean energy isn’t a climate solution unless you also phase out fossil fuels
laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 1d
China's formal submission of its new climate targets leaves out the commitment made in 2021 to gradually reduce coal consumption in 2026-30. It does reiterate the commitment to reduce carbon intensity, which is currently badly off track, but doesn't provide any progress update.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
"For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. [...] For the first time in centuries, the elite no longer feel they need educated workers and soldiers to uphold and reproduce the system."
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
70sbachchan.bsky.social Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8d
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”

Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
Think Trump is the only government official to break laws in order to force the development of more fossil fuels?

Well @governor.ny.gov is doing it too.
petesikora.bsky.social Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 1d
The law breaking is blatant. That’s why a state judge ordered her to comply with the law and issue regulations as she’s failed to do by early February.

Instead of following the law to help NYers, Hochul’s appealing the court order. (Adds several months of delay)

nysfocus.com/2025/10/24/n...
New York Is Violating Its Flagship Climate Law, Judge Rules
The law required a state agency to issue major regulations more than a year and a half ago, and it had no excuse not to, the court found.
nysfocus.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
You should ignore any political analysis that fails to consider how the right wing has captured both legacy and social media to spread propaganda in lockstep with the Trump regime.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT In Trump 2.0, MAGA-aligned influencers and media emerge as the new mainstream A Reuters examination details how rightist influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance, working together to target perceived adversaries, amplify false claims and reshape the media landscape. The shift comes as a growing number of social platforms and traditional outlets accommodate Trump.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
“…to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda” of starving millions of Americans.

Got it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
This is absolutely the best thing I’ve ever read about elite news-media bothsiderism, as well the relationship between knowledge-production and journalism.

It’s also filled w gossip and so human!

10/10

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It's so offhand you can think you're gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two "sides," or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling "appraisal" surgically excised.
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
doctorvive.bsky.social
We have barbarism. Let’s choose socialism instead.
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy The Treasury Department and the IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich. 6 MIN READ Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Trump to Curtail Food Stamp Funding The ruling, blocking a lower court order to fully fund the aid, added to the uncertainty around America's largest anti-hunger program.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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ssteingraber1.bsky.social
PS I usually post about on health harms of fossil fuel bullshit but since affordability is the theme this week, I’ll repeat the price tag: the NESE pipeline will cost New Yorkers $2.2 billion+ and force ratepayers to pay > $200 million/year for the next 15 yrs
readme.readmedia.com/Advocates-Co...
Advocates Condemn Gov. Hochul For Siding With Trump and Caving on Pipeline Shakedown
Today, Governor Hochul's Department of Environmental Conservation approved permitting for the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline - violating their commitment to protect New Yorkers ...
readme.readmedia.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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ssteingraber1.bsky.social
“i am profoundly disappointed by NYS decision to approve the proposed NESE fracked-gas pipeline. This project was rejected three times in the past for failing to meet the state’s own water-quality standards, and nothing about the project has changed.”

nadler.house.gov/news/documen...
Nadler Statement on New York’s Approval of NESE Pipeline
nadler.house.gov
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
doctorvive.bsky.social
Good god, the New York Times DIDN'T fix it.

As a climate scientist just reminded me, temperature increase has NOT "curved downward over the past 10 years" as this revision claims.

In fact THE RATE OF INCREASE IN GLOBAL WARMING HAS GONE UP 😩

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/clim...
The paper also finds that global surface temperatures are warming at a rate of about 0.27°C per decade. That's nearly 50% faster than the close to 0.2°C-per-decade warming rate of the 1990s and 2000s, indicating an acceleration of global warming.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM