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The nature of future

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Monday, 1st March
Online via Zoom, 7pm (GMT)
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** The Nature of the Future
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** “To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert... It’s a tribute to Kolbert’s skills as a storyteller that she transforms the quest to deal with the climate crisis into a darkly comic tale of human hubris and imagination that could either end in flames or in a new vision of Paradise”— Rolling Stone

Join us on Monday to journey into the future with two of the leading writers and thinkers on the environment: Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction interviewed by David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth.

Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction was an international bestseller and won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. Hailed by Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Al Gore, it was a talismanic book for anyone concerned with the fate of the planet.

Now, in Under A White Sky, Kolbert returns with an urgent exploration of humanity’s transformative impact on nature – and of the dramatic scientific innovations that may yet allow us to avert disaster and reverse the damage we’ve done. From the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone, to the researchers contemplating using tiny diamonds to scatter sunlight back to space, it is a jaw-dropping journey into our future; a future in which the kind of interventions that once imperilled our world now offer us our best hope of saving it.

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of The Sixth Extinction, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999, and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

David Wallace-Wells is editor-at-large of New York magazine, where he writes frequently about climate change and the near future of science and technology. David’s first book, The Uninhabitable Earth, was selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman. It was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019. It was also longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

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** Elizabeth Kolbert, David Wallace-Wells

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