Genevieve Guenther

“It’s hard to imagine a savvier or more useful account of our greatest crisis ... It is a genuine gift to the world.”
—Bill McKibbenAuthor of The End of Nature
“If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it.”
—Kieran SetiyaProfessor of Philosophy, MIT, and author of Life Is Hard
“An enlightening and inspiring journey through the politics of climate change. It’s a pivotal read for those committed to shaping America’s future.”
—Ro KhannaMember of Congress
“Guenther knows her subject and is a fabulous bullshit detector.”
—Jeff GoodellAuthor of the New York Times bestseller The Heat Will Kill You First
“A revelatory study ... It’s a breath of fresh air.”
—Publishers WeeklyStarred Review
A “genius book ... one of the best explanations I’ve read of how the heck the climate crisis has gone unchecked for so long.”
—Amy WesterveltFounder, Drilled Media
A "manifesto and de facto minicourse in critical thinking" that "equips and empowers climate communicators to expose fallacies and disinformation in fossil-fuel interests’ rhetoric"
—Los Angeles Review of Books
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A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change.

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Genevieve Guenther

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 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.

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