Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
@DoctorVive
Founding Director @EndClimtSilence Author "The Language of Climate Politics"
I am very happy to announce that "The Language of Climate Politics" has been shortlisted for the @upennlib Book Prize in Sustainability. I'm honored to be in the company of @AkshatRathi, Rob Jackson, and @edwardhumes! #ClimateChange
The tyranny of the status quo: Apres nous, le feu . . .
Shell and other fossil-fuel companies have abandoned the Science Based Targets initiative—a six-year-long attempt to define a global, corporate “net zero” emissions strategy—after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields.
Good riddance. If no new projects and a commitment to phase out causes the companies to abandon the standard than they were not committed to climate action in the first place. The no new projects (Ie stop growing the problem) is a useful bar to understand who plans to act and…
Shell and other fossil-fuel companies have abandoned the Science Based Targets initiative—a six-year-long attempt to define a global, corporate “net zero” emissions strategy—after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields.
I have been in Copenhagen for three weeks. I have not seen one homeless person. Not one. And the city is spotless. And there are flowers everywhere. Restaurants are hopping. And of course health care is free and you get a year of parental leave. But go off with your GDP myopia.
Thinking about this observation from @tylercowen again:
now that's a headline for the Trump era, if I ever saw one
this book is built on nearly 1000 footnotes, some including multiple citations, but go off climate-denying internet troll
You should really do your own research x.com/amuse/status/1…
Happening now in Tel Aviv: we march with the pictures of the children in Gaza who were starved to death by our government and our army. We cannot accept it. We call people to refuse the starvation, to refuse the killing, to refuse the annihilation.
"Until we get to net-zero emissions, extreme weather will only get worse, but it’s already damaging crops and pushing up the price of food all over the world." So reports those hippies at ... [checks notes] ... the @WSJ.
“Vegetable prices in California and Arizona jumped 80% on year in November, 2022 after extreme drought, while Ethiopian food prices rose 40% in March 2023 following a drought the year prior.” wsj.com/articles/extre…
The drought currently drying out our water supplies in the American Southwest could continue for as long as humans keep heating up the planet, according to a new study. 1/2