The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
September 19 @ 7:00 pm PDT
A Conversation with author Genevieve Guenther
Hosted by City Lights Bookstore and Foundation in conjunction with SF Bay PSR
The Language of Climate Politics dismantles fossil-fuel propaganda and offers new strategies for climate communication. It argues that partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points and that this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo. The book uncovers the falsehoods of this centrist consensus using rhetorical and ideological analyses of the terms that dominate current climate-change discourse. It provides a new vocabulary for climate activism and offers guidance on initiating conversations about the climate crisis that can move people to take climate action.