Dr. Genevieve Guenther Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

@AukeHoekstra Even Robert Solow, the father of neoclassical growth theory, acknowledges that a perpetual constant rate of return will require perpetual extraction of arable land at constant cost, and that in itself seems unsustainable.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

@jamieclimate The best audiobook experience I've ever had was listening to Ron Silver narrate Philip Roth's American Pastoral—incredibly powerful! AP is also a really interesting book about the 60s and 70s in America and parental love and environmental protest and failure.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

So sad! RIP Hilary Mantel The first Wolf Hall novel was simultaneously a revelation of the twisted but efficient inward life of the ambitious capitalist AND the fullest historical conjuring of the early Tudor court that one could possibly imagine. 🇬🇧🖤 https://t.co/rqJUNEBGkA

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

"Technological change raised humans out of Stone Age living standards. Climate change threatens, in the most extreme scenarios, to return us economically whence we came." ——— William Nordhaus *The Spirit of Green* (2019), p. 1991.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

New Yorkers! My friend Barbara Leckie is having a book party for her terrific new monograph *Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time*. The party is being thrown at the Museum of Jewish Heritage by her MIL—DR RUTH WESTHEIMER! 😃 You must be there! 🥳 https://t.co/0lafQjGyLe

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

*Put Me in the Zoo* by Robert Lopshire is another touchstone: a magical dog longs to live in the zoo, where it seems all his needs would be met, but then he realizes that the zoo is really a cage and his fabulous self belongs in a circus. I mean—YES. https://t.co/zq1NGAYZGP

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

RT @adamfederman: Took less than a year for Andreas Malm's new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, to be featured in a Department of Homeland…

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

Apropos of nothing: many children's books are ideologically treacherous, but *The Story of Ferdinand* is a really lovely tale that celebrates non-toxic masculinity, offering kids a hero who has no desire to fight, but just wants to sit and smell the flowers... https://t.co/yJ2lyLMmH3

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

I think @MichaelEMann's book *The New Climate War* should be taught in courses on climate change: without understanding the political fight over fossil fuels you're not going to understand the solutions to global heating. https://twitter.com/jennyelaineg/status/1525125777070735366

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

@cflav Do you know the Reacher novels by Lee Child? Totally addictive gold. Police procedurals with a lone wolf, ex-military (but not right-wing) investigator. The first twenty or so books also have a great audiobook narrator who reads with a real gumshoe flavor. Highly recommended!