Fall for the Book: The Beck Environmental Lecture with Elizabeth Kolbert
Thursday, October 14, 2021 7:00 PM EDT
Crowdcast
In Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells the incredible stories of biologists trying to save the world’s rarest fish, researchers developing a “super coral,” and engineers in Iceland turning carbon to stone. After writing her award-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Kolbert now asks the question: “After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?” Publisher’s Weekly calls the darkly comic Under a White Sky, “Brilliantly executed and urgently necessary.”
Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
Hosted by Fall for the Book.
Sponsored by Robert and Lucy Beck.
