The Language of Climate Politics in the 2024 Election
Wed, Sep 25
|Adler Hall at The New York Society
Time & Location
Sep 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Adler Hall at The New York Society , 2 W 64th St, New York, NY 10023, USA
About the event
How should we talk about climate change in the crucible of the 2024 elections? How are the Republican and Democratic candidates for President talking about climate science, economics, technology, and politics — and what can we learn from the ways their rhetoric and their policies are being covered, or not covered, in the press? Join Genevieve Guenther, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Bill Mckibben, and Amy Westervelt at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, for NYC Climate Week, in an exciting discussion of these urgent questions.
Genevieve Guenther is Affiliate Faculty at The New School, the Founding Director of End Climate Silence, a climate news-media advocacy group, and the author of The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It.Kendra Pierre-Louis is a climate reporter with Bloomberg. Bill McKibben is an author, educator, and environmentalist, who helped found 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, and who has recently…