Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change

In 2005, New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert set out to answer an important question once and for all: is climate change real? Her three-part series revealed that, yes, it is real. But that didn’t exactly settle the debate. Today, Kolbert is a pioneer in climate change journalism, exploring the many ways we have tried to face the consequences of our environmental actions. She speaks to us about her reporting journeys and the pressing need to fundamentally examine how we live and consume energy. Plus, she shares how her taste for dark comedy has seeped into her latest book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.

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