#  Harvard Science Book Talk: ELIZABETH KOLBERT, in conversation with Amy Brady, "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future"  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 15, 2021** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EST 

 



 

Sort    **Where** 

  Online: [https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual\_event\_elizabeth\_kolbert/](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](mailto: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*.

   ![Photo of Elizabeth Kolbert and cover of her book; photo of Amy Brady](/sites/g/files/omnuum7191/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/division-of-science/files/kolbert-mail.png?itok=l8sw-FsZ) 

 

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