Date:
| Where | Online: https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_elizabeth_kolbert/ |
| Organization/Sponsor | Harvard Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store |
| Speaker(s) | Elizabeth Kolbert and Amy Brady |
| Cost | free |
| Contact Info | science_lectures@fas.harvard.edu |
That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
To discuss the book on February 15, 2021, she will be joined by Amy Grady.
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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 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.
Amy Brady is the deputy publisher of Guernica magazine and co-editor of House on Fire: Dispatches from a Climate Changed World, an anthology of climate-themed essays forthcoming from Catapult.
For more information and videos of Harvard Science Book Talks, see https://science.fas.harvard.edu/book-talks.