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South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn't care much for the beetles, but they did spread across the coast of Queensland and beyond, with no natural predators to stop them. Their own deadly toxin devastated local reptiles along the way, and they now number over 200 million.Invasive biologists have long tried to curb Australia's cane toad population. The newest approach uses CRISPR gene-editing technology to create cannibalistic “Peter Pan” cane toad tadpoles: tadpoles that don't fully mature and instead feast on the tens of thousands of eggs that the toads produce.How was this approach developed, and how do these researchers think about making a potentially massive change to the ecosystem? Biologist Rick Shine, who has led the effort, joins Host Flora Lichtman to discuss it. Later, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her experience reporting on similar monumental efforts to control nature—and what they say about us.Guests: Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Crown, 2021). She's based in Williamstown, Massachusetts.Dr. Rick Shine is a professor of biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.Transcript is available on sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.

We're rebroadcasting another episode from the Resources Radio archive while the team is on a break through the rest of December. This week's episode is a throwback to the final installment of a three-part series that celebrated the 70th anniversary of Resources for the Future (RFF), back in 2022. We'll return with new episodes in the new year; in the meantime, enjoy this one and poke around the archive at Resources.org for more topics you might be interested in. In this week's episode rerun, host Daniel Raimi looks toward the future of RFF, as seen through the eyes of the organization's talented and dedicated research analysts and associates. RFF's research analysts gather and analyze data, review published studies, help write papers and reports, and do it all with dedication and enthusiasm. They're an essential part of the organization's research. In this episode, Raimi talks with RFF Research Analysts Emily Joiner, Sophie Pesek, Nicholas Roy, and Steven Witkin, along with Senior Research Associate and Geographic Information Systems Coordinator Alexandra Thompson. While these young scholars share how they first got interested in environmental economics, they mostly focus on the future by lending insights about the topics they think RFF scholars will be working on in 20 or 30 years—and what role they see for themselves in that future. References and recommendations: “70 Years of RFF: A Day in the Life at Resources for the Future, with RFF Staff” Resources Radio podcast episode; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/70-years-of-rff-a-day-in-the-life-at-resources-for-the-future-with-rff-staff/ “70 Years of RFF: The Legacy of Resources for the Future, with Ray Kopp and Kerry Smith” Resources Radio podcast episode; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/70-years-of-rff-the-legacy-of-resources-for-the-future-with-ray-kopp-and-kerry-smith/ “Chesapeake” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114052/chesapeake-by-james-a-michener/ “Alaska” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114041/alaska-by-james-a-michener/ “Hawaii” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114063/hawaii-by-james-a-michener/ “Caribbean” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114048/caribbean-by-james-a-michener/ “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert/ “The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848” by Eric Hobsbawm; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/80964/the-age-of-revolution-1749-1848-by-eric-hobsbawm/ “Rip It Up and Start Again” by Simon Reynolds; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291130/rip-it-up-and-start-again-by-simon-reynolds/ “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac “Severance” television series; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/

Guest: Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future; and her latest, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z. The post Climate Change From A to Z with Elizabeth Kolbert appeared first on KPFA.

Will technology — and the people who make it — lead us into a better future? Or a worse one? This week on “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts discuss Elon Musk, techno-optimism and the manifesto taking Silicon Valley by storm. Plus, we learn that Ross wears dad drag.(A transcript of this episode can be found at the top of the episode page on the Times website.) Thoughts about the show? Email us at matterofopinion@nytimes.com. Mentioned in this episode:“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” by Marc Andreessen“Elon Musk,” by Walter Isaacson“Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” by Elizabeth Kolbert

Since our last conversation, check out the reviews that have come in about Home on an Unruly Planet from past guests of this podcast:“With deep, compassionate reporting and elegant prose … Ostrander finds creativity, vital hope, and a sense of home that outlasts any address.”—Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction“As each new climate calamity obliterates, incinerates, or engulfs entire communities, we shudder to think our own could be next. Gently but purposefully, Ostrander guides us into places that have known this nightmare, not to shock but to show that the meaning of home is so powerful that people will make surprising, imaginative, even transcendent leaps to hold on to theirs. By her book's end, you realize that maybe you could, too.” —Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown“What does it mean to maintain a sense of place in an age of climate change? In At Home on an Unruly Planet, Madeline Ostrander explores this question with searching intelligence and uncommon empathy.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-prize-winning author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the FutureThe book comes out in paperback today (As I wrote in part 1, I don't get a commission, I just couldn't stop reading the book).In today's conversation, we talk more about what people are doing in the communities she spent time with. I may not have conveyed enough in the notes to part 1 that she spent years with these communities. She didn't just drop in on them. She created enduring relationships. She shares more from behind the scenes and her personal relationships with people who start with creating gardens and bike programs. They don't stop there. They organize to find ways to move oil refineries out of their neighborhoods.I brought up how Chevron doesn't buy its products. We all do. What they do, when we fill our gas tanks, buy airplane tickets, buy things shipped around the world, buy disposable diapers and other plastic, we fund their efforts. In my view, we have to change those patterns, not wait for them even if we say it's their responsibility. So Madeline and I talk about that view a bit too: individualism, capitalism, profit, and sustainability. Also, the way out: fun, community, gardens, persistence, and taking responsibility.Madeline's Home Page, featuring her book At Home on an Unruly PlanetAll her published articles and essaysHer stories at The Nation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to a conversation between Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein on May 21st, part of UC Santa Cruz's annual Deep Read, about  Kolbert's 2021 book, Under a White Sky. Kolbert is a writer, observer and commentator on the environment for The New Yorker and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Ezra Klein is a New York Times columnist, host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast and a UC Santa Cruz alum. You can watch the video of the entire event at: https://tinyurl.com/57czndz4.  

Modern society is constantly crafting mega solutions to problems it has created, many of which come with even more problems, and no guarantee of solving the issue, long term.  Whether it's injecting reflective aerosols into the atmosphere to combat climate change (literally turning the sky white), or gene-editing invasive species, “we seem incapable of stopping ourselves,” argues journalist and Pulitzer-prize winning author Elizabeth Kolbert.  She joins the Mongabay Newscast to talk about her latest book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” which explores many of these machinations in detail and why she urges readers to be skeptical of them. Related reading: Geoengineering Earth's climate future: Straight talk with Wake Smith Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists Is invasive species management doing more harm than good? (commentary) Release the cats: Training native species to fear invasive predators Please invite your friends to subscribe to the Mongabay Newscast wherever they get podcasts, from Apple to Spotify, or download our free app in the Apple App Store or in the Google Store to get access to our latest episodes at your fingertips. If you enjoy the Newscast, please visit www.patreon.com/mongabay to pledge a dollar or more to keep the show growing, Mongabay is a nonprofit media outlet and all support helps! See all our latest news from nature's frontline at Mongabay's homepage: news.mongabay.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching for @mongabay. Please share your thoughts and feedback! submissions@mongabay.com. Image: The cane toad (Rhinella marina). Native to South and Central America, the toxic species was deliberately introduced in Queensland, Australia, in 1935 and today it is considered an invasive pest, poisoning native fauna. Image by Paul Williams/Iron Ammonite Photography. Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Hey smarties! We're on a break for the holidays and revisiting some favorite episodes from 2022. We want to say a big thank-you for being part of the “Make Me Smart” family this year — every voicemail, question and donation made a huge difference. None of us is as smart as all of us, and we couldn't do this show without you. There's still time to help Marketplace reach its end-of-year fundraising goal. If you can, please donate here. Thanks, happy holidays and we'll see you in the new year. As the threat of climate change grows, expect to hear more about solar geoengineering. It came up during our recent episode with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, and it involves spraying tiny particles into the stratosphere to deflect the sun's rays away from the Earth and cool the planet. “It's a pretty old idea and it has run into such opposition, in terms of research, that we have yet to have any rigorous tests of whether it is even, you know, remotely possible,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, a climate journalist and author of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” Critics still believe the risks outweigh potential benefits, but that hasn't stopped others from supporting the idea as a potential solution to our climate woes. On the show today, the promise and peril of solar geoengineering. In the News Fix, we'll discuss a historic settlement between Sandy Hook families and gun manufacturer Remington Arms. Also, we'll explain why billionaire philanthropists are a social policy issue. Then we'll hear from listeners about last week's episode on the NFL racial discrimination lawsuit, and we'll have an answer to the Make Me Smart question that will teach you something about weather forecasting! Here's everything we talked about today: “Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It.” from The New York Times “Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled” from Grist Plaintiffs say they have a settlement agreement with the maker of the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting from Connecticut Public Radio “U.S. Producer-Price Inflation Stays Hot, Reinforcing Fed's Plan to Start Raising Rates” from Bloomberg “Elon Musk Gave $5.7 Billion of Tesla Shares to Charity Last Year” from The Wall Street Journal How to Become a National Weather Service Storm Spotter

Hey smarties! We're on a break for the holidays and revisiting some favorite episodes from 2022. We want to say a big thank-you for being part of the “Make Me Smart” family this year — every voicemail, question and donation made a huge difference. None of us is as smart as all of us, and we couldn't do this show without you. There's still time to help Marketplace reach its end-of-year fundraising goal. If you can, please donate here. Thanks, happy holidays and we'll see you in the new year. As the threat of climate change grows, expect to hear more about solar geoengineering. It came up during our recent episode with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, and it involves spraying tiny particles into the stratosphere to deflect the sun's rays away from the Earth and cool the planet. “It's a pretty old idea and it has run into such opposition, in terms of research, that we have yet to have any rigorous tests of whether it is even, you know, remotely possible,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, a climate journalist and author of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” Critics still believe the risks outweigh potential benefits, but that hasn't stopped others from supporting the idea as a potential solution to our climate woes. On the show today, the promise and peril of solar geoengineering. In the News Fix, we'll discuss a historic settlement between Sandy Hook families and gun manufacturer Remington Arms. Also, we'll explain why billionaire philanthropists are a social policy issue. Then we'll hear from listeners about last week's episode on the NFL racial discrimination lawsuit, and we'll have an answer to the Make Me Smart question that will teach you something about weather forecasting! Here's everything we talked about today: “Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It.” from The New York Times “Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled” from Grist Plaintiffs say they have a settlement agreement with the maker of the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting from Connecticut Public Radio “U.S. Producer-Price Inflation Stays Hot, Reinforcing Fed's Plan to Start Raising Rates” from Bloomberg “Elon Musk Gave $5.7 Billion of Tesla Shares to Charity Last Year” from The Wall Street Journal How to Become a National Weather Service Storm Spotter

What climate books do you want for Christmas?  Listen in to find out where to start on picking out those stocking fillers. In this special episode, Jo reunites with William McDonnell to discuss their top picks of climate books across all genres, from climate science to politics and economics, covering fiction and non-fiction. Although its light-hearted, there's a deadly serious point: given the urgency of the climate crisis, we need to educate ourselves on the nature of the problem and the solutions at hand. Books offer a wonderful opportunity to learn much more about the challenges we face to build up a holistic view of risks that we value so much at GARP. With so many excellent books out there, we hope this episode offers a guide, whether it's for expanding your own library of climate-related books or simply finding the perfect gift. And remember – as they say about dogs – a book is for life, not just for Christmas. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to give us feedback, please let us know at climateriskpodcast@garp.com. Books mentioned in today's discussion (in broad categories) Understanding the problem Six Degrees: Our Future on A Hotter Planet – Mark Lynas The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit? – Mike Berners-Lees and Duncan Clark There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Mike Berners-Lees The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene – Simon L. Lewis and Mark Maslin Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors – Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century – Walter Scheidel How did we get here? Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change – Nathaniel Rich Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity – James Hanson Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes The New Climate War: The fight to take back our planet – Michael E. Mann Climate economics Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist – Kate Raworth Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet – Tim Jackson Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change – Dieter Helm Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being – Joseph Stiglitz Risk psychology Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change – George Marshall Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman Climate and nature fiction Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson Green Earth – Kim Stanley Robinson The Overstory – Richard Powers Communicating climate change Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World – Katherine Hayhoe The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World – Jeff Goodell Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change? – Matt Winning Climate solutions How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need – Bill Gates Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming – Paul Hawken Investing in the Era of Climate Change – Bruce Usher Making Climate Policy Work – David Victor and Danny Cullenward Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future – Elizabeth Kolbert The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World – Oliver Morton Social challenges of climate change This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate – Naomi Klein On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal – Naomi Klein Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future – Mary Robinson Bonus: Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado Perez Environment and biodiversity Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm – Isabella Tree The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet – George Monbiot Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside – Dieter Helm Looking forwards The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis – Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac The Climate Book – Greta Thunberg Uplifting reads Humankind: A Human History – Rutger Bregman Humans: A Brief History of How We F***** It All Up – Tom Phillips  Speaker's Bio(s) William McDonnell, COO, Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market William is COO for the ICVCM, the new global governance body to set and enforce threshold quality standards for the voluntary carbon market. Prior to that he had a 25-year career in financial services. Most recently he was Group Chief Risk Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee for RSA Insurance Group plc for 7 years, responsible for Risk, Assurance and Compliance groupwide. Prior to RSA he held roles at HSBC Investment Bank, Aviva, the UK Financial Services Authority and Deloitte. William is a leading voice on climate risk in the financial sector, having served as a member of the ClimateWise Council and of the UK's Climate Financial Risk Forum, and as chair of the Emerging Risks Initiative of leading global insurers, publishing a major climate study ‘The Heat is on – Insurability and Resilience in a Changing Climate'. 

หนังสือ Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future ของ Elizabeth Kolbert - ปัญหาวิกฤตของสภาพแวดล้อมจะเป็นสิ่งหนึ่งที่เราทุกคนจะต้องอยู่ร่วมกับมัน และเราจะอยู่ร่วมกับมันอย่างไรไม่ให้มันทรุดหนักกว่าเดิม - เมื่อก๊าซคาร์บอนไดออกไซด์กำลังทำจุดสูงสุดในทุก ๆ ปี เพราะมีอุตสาหกรรมมากมายระดมสรรพกำลัง ทำให้เศรษฐกิจนั้นขับเคลื่อนแต่ก็ฝากทิ้งบางสิ่งไว้แทน - ถ้าเราต้องการให้โลกเปลี่ยนแปลง เราต้องเริ่มเปลี่ยนเปลี่ยนในทุกระดับชั้น เราเพิกเฉยการกระทำของเราได้ แต่เราจะเพิกเฉยผลมวลรวมของการกระทำเราไปไม่ได้เลย - ไฟไหม้ป่าลุกลามมากขึ้นในทุก ๆ ปี ก่อให้เกิดเมฆหมอกที่ขาวปกคลุมชั้นบรรยากาศ จึงกลายมาเป็นจุดที่เราต้องคำนึงมากที่สุด นั่นก็คืออากาศบริสุทธิ์ที่หาได้ยากมากขึ้น - การต่อสู้นี้จะยังเป็นเพียงแค่จุดเริ่มต้น นักวิทยาศาสตร์ นักธรณีวิทยา และนักวารสารศาสตร์ ก็จึงเป็นหัวหอกในการเป็นผู้นำทางด้านจิตวิญญาณในเรื่องของธรรมชาติสืบไป

If we can just get through the 21st century, humanity might have a chance, says Elizabeth Kolbert. We have already intervened in the earth's system to the extent that we are now living in the ‘Anthropocene'. Maybe we can buy time by intervening even more, with so-called geo-engineering: turning carbon emissions to stone, for example, genetically modifying trees or even dimming the sun by shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere. After having done so much damage, can we change nature again, this time in order to save it?Writer and staff journalist at The New Yorker Elizabeth Kolbert joined the John Adams in June, 2021 to talk about her book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future . She is renowned for her authoritative voice and her poetic prose. The combination won her the Pulitzer Prize for her previous book The Sixth Extinction.Support the show

Rien Fertel is the author of Brown Pelican and three previous books: Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera, The One True Barbecue, and Imagining the Creole City. He is currently a Visiting Professor of History at Tulane University. * Mentioned in this episode: [1:14] Rien Fertel's Brown Pelican [2:25] Fantasy Birding [2:50] eBird [9:20] Rachel Carson's Silent Spring [15:19] Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future [15:58] Walter Anderson [17:46] Jack Davis's The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

An encore presentation from early 2021 that speaks to our current summer of floods, droughts, blazing temperatures and extreme weather across the northern hemisphere: Hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, whose new book is called Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, in which Kolbert explores the many ways humans intervene in nature. Kolbert discusses invasive species, the sinking of New Orleans, the triage plan for climate change and how solar geoengineering might bleach our skies. Also, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, returns to recommend Children of the Land by Marcello Hernandez Castillo.

An encore presentation from early 2021 that speaks to our current summer of floods, droughts, blazing temperatures and extreme weather across the northern hemisphere: Hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, whose new book is called Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, in which Kolbert explores the many ways humans intervene in nature. Kolbert discusses invasive species, the sinking of New Orleans, the triage plan for climate change and how solar geoengineering might bleach our skies. Also, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, returns to recommend Children of the Land by Marcello Hernandez Castillo.

Climate change and its effects are increasingly recognized as important subjects of national security research and analysis. Few issues of international political economy or international security avoid some intersection with warming global temperatures, evolving environments for human habitation, and/or changing geography.Erin Sikorsky has been studying these and related issues for decades, first within the US Intelligence Community and now at the Center for Climate and Security. David Priess had a wide ranging conversation with Erin about her career in government and beyond, how intelligence officers look at climate, a method of categorizing climate risk, how NATO is tackling climate-related issues, the missed opportunity to emphasize renewables over fossil fuels after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Climate Security Advisory Group, increasingly bipartisan support for climate security action, the roles of the public and Hollywood in addressing climate change, how various movies and books have examined these issues, and more.Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.Among the works discussed in this episode:Erin Sikorsky's page at the Center for Climate and Security The Chatter podcast episode Arctic Security and Cooperation with Marisol Maddox"Summer Heatwave Underscores Importance of NATO's Climate Security Focus," Center for Climate and Security website, July 21, 2022, by Erin Sikorsky"Climate Security Next Steps for the U.S. Government," Lawfare, May 6, 2022, by John Conger and Erin SikorskyThe movie AvatarThe movie InterstellarThe movie The Day After TomorrowThe movie Don't Look UpThe book The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe book trilogy The Broken Earth by N. K. JemisinThe book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth KolbertThe report Groundswell, Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration, by the World BankJohn Conger's page at the Center for Climate and Security Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode is the final installment of a three-part series that celebrates the 70th anniversary of Resources for the Future (RFF). In this episode, host Daniel Raimi looks toward the future of RFF, as seen through the eyes of the organization's talented and dedicated research analysts and associates. RFF's research analysts gather and analyze data, review published studies, help write papers and reports, and do it all with dedication and enthusiasm. They're an essential part of the organization's research. In this episode, Raimi talks with RFF Research Analysts Emily Joiner, Sophie Pesek, Nicholas Roy, and Steven Witkin, along with Senior Research Associate and Geographic Information Systems Coordinator Alexandra Thompson. While these young scholars share how they first got interested in environmental economics, they mostly focus on the future by lending insights about the topics they think RFF scholars will be working on in 20 or 30 years—and what role they see for themselves in that future. References and recommendations: “Chesapeake” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114052/chesapeake-by-james-a-michener/ “Alaska” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114041/alaska-by-james-a-michener/ “Hawaii” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114063/hawaii-by-james-a-michener/ “Caribbean” by James A. Michener; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/114048/caribbean-by-james-a-michener/ “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert/ “The Age of Revolution: 1789–1848” by Eric Hobsbawm; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/80964/the-age-of-revolution-1749-1848-by-eric-hobsbawm/ “Rip It Up and Start Again” by Simon Reynolds; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/291130/rip-it-up-and-start-again-by-simon-reynolds/ “A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold; https://www.aldoleopold.org/store/a-sand-county-almanac/ “Severance” television series; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/

On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore speaks with Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert is a writer at The New Yorker, as well as the author of several books, including The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015. Her most recent book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, was published in 2021. The podcast begins with Kolbert discussing how journalism, as a profession, has changed over the course of her career. While praising the accessibility that the internet has provided journalists, Kolbert also laments the way it has profoundly altered the industry's economic model, resulting in less funding being made available for in-depth reporting. She also warns that one of the unexpected byproducts of the freedom of information has been the freedom of disinformation. This has been exacerbated by changes in how journalists do their job in the internet age, where there is far less personal interaction between writers and the individuals they are writing about. Kolbert explains that the type of long-form journalism she specializes in still requires a serious investment, and this has led to new funding options such as non-profit journalism organizations. (:40 – 7:52) The conversation then shifts to Kolbert's new book, which Livermore describes as a book about unintended consequences and tragic choices in relation to the environment. One example in Under a White Sky is gene drive technology, which Kolbert explains are biological mechanisms that preferentially pass down genetic material from generation to generation. Currently there is an effort to create synthetic gene drives that would allow for the suppression of malaria in mosquitoes. Given its powerful implications, this technology is controversial, and some have compared it to the invention of the atom bomb in the sense that our scientific ability has exceeded the limits of our control. Along those lines, Kolbert states that the goal is to eventually release these modified mosquitoes in regions of Africa with high malaria transmission, but presently there is significant worry about the unintended consequences of that action. (8:13 – 18:02) This leads to an extended conversation about geo-engineering, another technology that Kolbert examines in her book. Like gene drives, geo-engineering is a technology that, hypothetically, would allow humanity to control the environment. Kolbert talks about the two primary forms of geo-engineering – removing carbon from the atmosphere and reflecting solar activity away from the earth. She emphasizes that although we do not have the capacity to remove carbon from the atmosphere at a massive commercial scale, most carbon neutrality plans place great weight on the ability to commercialize that technology in the near future. The other alternative – blocking sunlight from entering the atmosphere — poses its own set of problems, from altered weather patterns to a change in the color of the sky. Kolbert also makes the point that no amount of geo-engineering will counterbalance continued carbon emissions, and the challenges associated with controlling emissions are only increasing as the world becomes more unstable. (18:10 – 29:53) The podcast concludes with Kolbert offering insight into how she remains motivated to report on material that is often quite depressing to consider (29:55 – 31:55). Professor Michael Livermore is the Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is also the Director of the Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE), an interdisciplinary program based at UVA Law that examines the intersection of legal, environmental, and social concerns.

How irreversibly have we altered the natural world?That's a question climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert has been trying to answer for decades while reporting on the environment for The New Yorker magazine.In her Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. In her latest book - Under a White Sky - The Nature of the Future she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.And today—in recognition of Earth Day, she joins Patrick Flynn, SVP and Global Head of Sustainability at Salesforce, to discuss what steps we need to take to reign in carbon emissions and save our planet.Mentions: Elizabeth's Book – Under a White Sky, the Nature of the FutureIPCC Global Climate Predictions

John answers listener questions on craft and industry. When are you ready to send a script? How do you rewrite scenes during production? Is it cool to take a picture with your celebrity crush on set? John offers professional advice for writers on the page and in real life. We follow up on screenwriter dexterity (typing speed) and ergonomic keyboards. In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Megana discuss ‘Murder House Architecture.' What makes contemporary homes so scary and who are the contractors constructing these basements? Links: Patton Oswalt in King of Queens Scene ZSA Moonlander Compare Your Typing Speed Against ours here! Phoebe Waller Bridge – 73 Questions with Vogue Paul Stamets on Seven Mycoattractant and Mycopesticide Patents released to Commons! Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert Murder House Architecture Samantha Hartsoe's TikTok NYC Apartment Ohio State Students Discover Students Living in Basement Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt! Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription! Craig Mazin on Twitter John August on Twitter John on Instagram Outro by Ben Gerrior (send us yours!) Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli. Email us at ask@johnaugust.com You can download the episode here.

We speak with Elizabeth Kolbert, a journalist of politics and the environment. She has been at The New Yorker for more than 20 years and is the author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction), and Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. We dive into how the climate change discourse has changed, mass extinctions and new speciation, and international large-scale interventions in natural systems.At The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/elizabeth-kolbertTwitter: https://twitter.com/ElizKolbert Under a White Sky: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert/The Sixth Extinction: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinctionField Notes from a Catastrophe: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-notes-from-a-catastrophe-9781620409886/

In this episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Erik Nordman, professor of natural resources management and adjunct professor of economics at Grand Valley State University, and affiliate scholar at Indiana University's Ostrom Workshop. Nordman discusses his new book, “The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action,” which introduces Ostrom's Nobel Prize–winning economic concepts to a broader audience. Nordman discusses his inspiration behind writing the book, how locally tailored solutions are essential to resource management today, and Ostrom's research legacy in establishing the Bloomington School of Political Economy. References and recommendations: “The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action” by Erik Nordman; https://islandpress.org/books/uncommon-knowledge-elinor-ostrom “The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations” edited by Sheila R. Foster and Chrystie F. Swiney; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-commons-research-innovations/0C89E27A710207DC008C7A2F9AD55F79 “Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences” edited by Jayme Lemke and Vlad Tarko; https://ppe.mercatus.org/publications/elinor-ostrom-and-bloomington-school “Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall” by Daniel MacFarlane; https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo70337053.html “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert/ “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185/thesixthextinction “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change” by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/field-notes-from-a-catastrophe-9781620409886/

As the threat of climate change grows, expect to hear more about solar geoengineering. It came up during our recent episode with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, and it involves spraying tiny particles into the stratosphere to deflect the sun’s rays away from the Earth and cool the planet. “It’s a pretty old idea and it has run into such opposition, in terms of research, that we have yet to have any rigorous tests of whether it is even, you know, remotely possible,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, a climate journalist and author of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” Critics still believe the risks outweigh potential benefits, but that hasn’t stopped others from supporting the idea as a potential solution to our climate woes. On the show today, the promise and peril of solar geoengineering. In the News Fix, we’ll discuss a historic settlement between Sandy Hook families and gun manufacturer Remington Arms. Also, we’ll explain why billionaire philanthropists are a social policy issue. Then we’ll hear from listeners about last week’s episode on the NFL racial discrimination lawsuit, and we’ll have an answer to the Make Me Smart question that will teach you something about weather forecasting! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. ” from The New York Times “Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled” from Grist Plaintiffs say they have a settlement agreement with the maker of the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting from Connecticut Public Radio “U.S. Producer-Price Inflation Stays Hot, Reinforcing Fed's Plan to Start Raising Rates” from Bloomberg “Elon Musk Gave $5.7 Billion of Tesla Shares to Charity Last Year” from The Wall Street Journal How to Become a National Weather Service Storm Spotter

As the threat of climate change grows, expect to hear more about solar geoengineering. It came up during our recent episode with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, and it involves spraying tiny particles into the stratosphere to deflect the sun’s rays away from the Earth and cool the planet. “It’s a pretty old idea and it has run into such opposition, in terms of research, that we have yet to have any rigorous tests of whether it is even, you know, remotely possible,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, a climate journalist and author of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” Critics still believe the risks outweigh potential benefits, but that hasn’t stopped others from supporting the idea as a potential solution to our climate woes. On the show today, the promise and peril of solar geoengineering. In the News Fix, we’ll discuss a historic settlement between Sandy Hook families and gun manufacturer Remington Arms. Also, we’ll explain why billionaire philanthropists are a social policy issue. Then we’ll hear from listeners about last week’s episode on the NFL racial discrimination lawsuit, and we’ll have an answer to the Make Me Smart question that will teach you something about weather forecasting! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. ” from The New York Times “Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled” from Grist Plaintiffs say they have a settlement agreement with the maker of the gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting from Connecticut Public Radio “U.S. Producer-Price Inflation Stays Hot, Reinforcing Fed's Plan to Start Raising Rates” from Bloomberg “Elon Musk Gave $5.7 Billion of Tesla Shares to Charity Last Year” from The Wall Street Journal How to Become a National Weather Service Storm Spotter

這一集來聊聊博客來、誠品商管書熱門書單、經理人讀者最愛書單，以及比爾．蓋茲書單解讀。 1.《致富的特權》 2.《成為1%的創業存活者》 3.《雜訊》 4.《無限賽局》 經理人讀者喜愛書單 《台積電為什麼神？》 《假如孫子是現代上班族》 蓋茲的書單 《破解基因密碼的人》 《智能新論》（暫譯，英文書名為《A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence》） 《克拉拉與太陽》 《熄燈之後：高傲、幻覺以及奇異公司的殞落》（暫譯，英文書名為《Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric》） 《白色天空下》（暫譯，英文書名為《Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future》） 《免疫解碼》 《樹冠上》 《經理人月刊》數位內容主編韋惟珊、採訪編輯劉燿瑜製作、主持。 Powered by Firstory Hosting

Today begins a 2-part series, inspired by the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and its Faculty Fellows who recently put together their annual list of Best Books for Ethical Leaders. In it, they share ten books published during the 2021 “that bridge the worlds of business and academia and provide practical insights that can help leaders live and work more ethically.” Over the next two episodes of the Sunday Book Review, I will be exploring their list.  ·      You Have More Influence Than You Think by Vanessa Bohns, selected by Brett Beasley. ·      Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert, selected by Jessica McManus Warnell. ·      Seven Deadly Economic Sins: Obstacles to Prosperity and Happiness Every Citizen Should Know by James Otteson, selected by Brett Beasley. ·      A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions and Insights from Catholic Teaching (3rd edition) selected by John Sikorski. ·      Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue by Christian Miller, selected by James Otteson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Elizabeth Kolbert in conversation with David Ackerly, dean of UC Berkeley's Rausser College of Natural Resources, and Geeta Anand, dean of Berkeley Journalism, as part of the 2021 Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation.Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. 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. In her 2021 book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert asks the question: “After doing so much damage, can we change nature — this time, to save it?”Listen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News.If you haven't already, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The intelligent and ever-resourceful Brian Seguin returns to conclude our discussion on who and what is included in a community. How do you feel belonging in your community? Do you feel at home where you are? Who or what makes you feel at home; and how do those distinctions affect your perspective on who or what a community is composed of? Satish Kumar says, "We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred." The same connections apply with our local coexisting human beings. Going Zero Waste article - "Which is Better for the Environment: Glass or Plastic?"Book 1 - Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long WalkBook 2 - Under a White Sky: The Nature of the FutureDocumentary 1 - Tar Creek by Bullfrog FilmsDocumentary 2 - Source to Sea: The Columbia River SwimCheck out the incredible art installations by Nicholas Galanin.Thank you so much for listening!Love yourselves, friends!

The cane toad, introduced in Australia in the 1930s to control pests, quickly became a major problem itself – one of many examples of human interventions in natural systems that scientists should keep in mind while trying to tackle the climate crisis, says New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.

Today we're bringing you a holiday special of Hudson Mohawk Magazine and highlighting 5 interviews with authors over the past year. We begin with Elizabeth Kolbert who spoke with Mark Dunlea about her new book about the actions of humans threatening our future in “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future”; Then Renee Powell speaks with Ms. Ella Maria LeBlanc about her book "Your Path to True Freedom: 10 Principles to guide you to Living the Life you Deserve"; Later on, “A Walk In The Words” is Hudson Talbott's newest book, and he spoke with Andrea Cunliffe about how this story relates to his own journey with words; After that it's a book about exploitation. Angela Kaufman tells Aileen Javier about her novel Quiet Man; Finally, a niece is honored in “Ny'asia's Beeutiful Discovery.” Dulcinia Diggs caught up with the author Ashley Charleston at a Girls Inc. event CC image by Peretz Partensky, "Book Store in Kabul"

Does geoengineering offer a Plan B if nations at the U.N. climate meeting can't reduce carbon emissions? The Glasgow meeting has been called “the last best chance” to take measures to slow down global heating. But we're nowhere near to achieving the emission reductions necessary to stave off a hothouse planet. We consider both the promise and the perils of geoengineering, and ask who decides about experimenting with Earth's climate. Guests: ·       Elizabeth Kolbert – Staff Writer at The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction,” and, most recently, of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” ·       David Keith – Professor of public policy and applied physics at Harvard University who also participates in the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPex) geoengineering project. ·       Kim Cobb – Professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech, and the director of its Global Change Program.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does geoengineering offer a Plan B if nations at the U.N. climate meeting can't reduce carbon emissions? The Glasgow meeting has been called “the last best chance” to take measures to slow down global heating.  But we're nowhere near to achieving the emission reductions necessary to stave off a hothouse planet. We consider both the promise and the perils of geoengineering, and ask who decides about experimenting with Earth's climate. Guests: Elizabeth Kolbert – Staff Writer at The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction,” and, most recently, of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” David Keith – Professor of public policy and applied physics at Harvard University who also participates in the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPex) geoengineering project. Kim Cobb – Professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech, and the director of its Global Change Program.  

Does geoengineering offer a Plan B if nations at the U.N. climate meeting can't reduce carbon emissions? The Glasgow meeting has been called “the last best chance” to take measures to slow down global heating. But we're nowhere near to achieving the emission reductions necessary to stave off a hothouse planet. We consider both the promise and the perils of geoengineering, and ask who decides about experimenting with Earth's climate. Guests: ·       Elizabeth Kolbert – Staff Writer at The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction,” and, most recently, of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” ·       David Keith – Professor of public policy and applied physics at Harvard University who also participates in the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPex) geoengineering project. ·       Kim Cobb – Professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech, and the director of its Global Change Program.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by: Carl R. Trueman Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by: Elizabeth Kolbert Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by: Julia Galef Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by: Mike Duncan This Is How You Lose the Time War by: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by: Sharyl Attkisson Plato: Complete Works by: Plato Stillness Is the Key by: Ryan Holiday The Sorrows of Young Werther by: Goethe

Science doesn't have to be boring! There are so many exciting new science books covering nature, our minds, shapes, DNA, and sooooo many other things, that you're missing out if you're not checking them out. Today Michelle & Jacob talk about some of the most interesting science books to be published in 2021. The Sopranos Sessions (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3xnlc6Q The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3rYofRF A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3rWbYgC Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3iseA2H Einstein's Fridge : How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/2X6tkMJ Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3it8qPX Think Again : The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3Cnc7P7 This Is Your Mind on Plants (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3AedEVR Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (BOOK)- https://bit.ly/3CfJumO

In today's edition of Sunday Book Review: Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric— Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future— Elizabeth Kolbert A Promised Land— Barack Obama The Overstory— Richard Powers An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives— Matt Richtel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Since the first levee was built in New Orleans in 1717, we have been trying to manage America's rivers. But now our infrastructure is failing. And if we don't compromise on a plan to restore (or strategically remove) our dams, levees, and locks and give our waterways more space, flooding events will continue to devastate entire communities over and over again. Tyler J. Kelley is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker, among many other national publications. His first book, Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways, was published in April 2021. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Tyler joins Ross to explain why riverboat traffic is still important to the US economy, moving more than 1,000 semi-trucks' worth of vital commodities daily. Tyler discusses the extensive work we've done to manage rivers in the US, describing how much land would be unlivable without levees and why the risks of flooding will only increase with climate change. Listen in for Tyler's insight on the Dutch Delta Works project to give land back to the rivers and fortify existing infrastructure and learn how we might create a similar comprehensive flood control plan to protect communities here in the US. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Join Nori's book club on Patreon Nori's website Nori on Twitter Nori on YouTube Sign up for Nori's weekly Newsletter, The Nori Wrap Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Email podcast@nori.com Resources Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America's Waterways by Tyler J. Kelley Tyler's Website ‘The Fight to Tame a Swelling River with Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change' in The New York Times Elizabeth Kolbert on Reversing Climate Change S2EP50 Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert Levee Wars on Sny Island Rebuild Pinhook --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reversingclimatechange/support

To solve climate change, we need to do more than cut emissions. Almost all optimistic climate forecasts rely either on negative emissions or finding a way to mask the effects of emissions. In other words, carbon capture or some form of geoengineering. But of course, these are controversial, risky solutions. And the same can be said for other modern conservation projects, such as electrifying a river to keep out Asian Carp, or using gene-editing to combat an invasive species. These initiatives represent a new kind of environmentalism, which focuses less on reversing past human action and more on protecting the planet through more action. Today's episode discusses this new approach with Elizabeth Kolbert. Elizabeth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at The New Yorker, as well as the author of several books, the most recent of which is https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DMWR6BP/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 (Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future), released this past February.

To solve climate change, we need to do more than cut emissions. Almost all optimistic climate forecasts rely either on negative emissions or finding a way to mask the effects of emissions. In other words, carbon capture or some form of geoengineering. But of course, these are controversial, risky solutions. And the same can be said for other modern conservation projects, such as electrifying a river to keep out Asian Carp, or using gene-editing to combat an invasive species. These initiatives represent a new kind of environmentalism, which focuses less on reversing past human action and more on protecting the planet through more action. Today's episode discusses this new approach with Elizabeth Kolbert. Elizabeth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at The New Yorker, as well as the author of several books, the most recent of which is Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, released this past February.

Youth Activists Win Stronger Climate Action in Germany / French Climate Bill Disappoints Activists / Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future / Beyond the Headlines / Note on Emerging Science: Biochar and Irrigation / The Colorado River's Dwindling Water Supply After a trial brought forth by youth climate activists, Germany's highest court recently ruled that present government commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to protect future needs. Also, humans have undoubtedly altered the environment. We've reversed rivers, introduced invasive species, and even disrupted the climate. In the new book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Elizabeth Kolbert explores cutting edge and controversial technologies aimed at solving the problems these changes have created. And the Colorado River is parched in a "megadrought," with two key reservoirs expected to drop to record low levels this year and trigger a formal water shortage declaration. Why supply continues to shrink as demand holds steady. Thanks to our sponsor this week: Democracy in Danger, a podcast from the University of Virginia

Youth Activists Win Stronger Climate Action in Germany / French Climate Bill Disappoints Activists / Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future / Beyond the Headlines / Note on Emerging Science: Biochar and Irrigation / The Colorado River's Dwindling Water Supply After a trial brought forth by youth climate activists, Germany's highest court recently ruled that present government commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to protect future needs. Also, humans have undoubtedly altered the environment. We've reversed rivers, introduced invasive species, and even disrupted the climate. In the new book Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Elizabeth Kolbert explores cutting edge and controversial technologies aimed at solving the problems these changes have created. And the Colorado River is parched in a "megadrought," with two key reservoirs expected to drop to record low levels this year and trigger a formal water shortage declaration. Why supply continues to shrink as demand holds steady. Thanks to our sponsor this week: Democracy in Danger, a podcast from the University of Virginia

The twenty-first episode of GREAT PODVERSATIONS features best-selling writer Elizabeth Kolbert speaking with journalist Kate Aronoff about Ms. Kolbert's book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” and other timely topics. Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her most recent book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” was published in February. In it, Kolbert explores whether we can change nature to save it, in Earth's new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. 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. The New York Times praises “Under a White Sky” as: "...important, necessary, urgent, and phenomenally interesting." Kolbert is also the author of “The Sixth Extinction,” which received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015, and “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.” She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and has received a Heinz Award , a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Academies communications award. Kolbert is a visiting fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of “Overheated: How Capitalism Broke The Planet—And How We Fight Back.” Her work has appeared in The Intercept, The New York Times, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Aronoff is the co-editor of “We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style and the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.” She sits on the editorial board of Dissent and the advisory board of Jewish Currents.

In the 7th episode of Planet A’s second season, Dan Jørgensen talks with the journalist and author, Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert first achieved international prominence when her bestselling book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and the Guardian named it the best non-fiction book of all time. She has worked for the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine since the early 1980’s. A recurring theme in her writing has been the consequences of environmental degradation.On the podcast, Kolbert speaks about the prospect for a mass extinction on Earth, due to the climate and biodiversity crises - and the large-scale interventions that could help turn the tide. Kolbert has explored the issue in her latest book “Under a White Sky: The Nature of The Future”, which was published just a few months ago. She studied “solar geoengineering”, the idea of injecting sulfate into the stratosphere to limit how much direct sunlight that would hit the Earth. This would emulate a volcanic eruption and could lower the global temperature. However, it can also lead to new problems and raises grave ethical questions. For instance, it would make the sky appear whiter.The book makes for gloomy reading and Kolbert is certainly no optimist when it comes to the future of the planet. Nonetheless, she finds some hope in community driven approaches to the climate crisis and is very fond of the Danish Island of Samsø that has been pioneering the green transition through a bottom-up-approach.

Insects are the most abundant group of animals on the planet. There are an estimated 10 quintillion of them on Earth. But in recent years, scientists have found disturbing evidence that insect populations are on the decline around the world. The environmental threats to insects are numerous: deforestation, pesticides, and climate change all seem to play a part in declining populations, a phenomenon UConn ecologist David Wagner and colleagues described as a “death by a thousand cuts” in a January 2021 special issue of PNAS dedicated to the issue of insect decline. This hour, we talk with the scientists and journalists trying to make sense of the precipitous decline in insect populations around the world.  We hear from a Nevada researcher whose recent study in the journal Science helps pinpoint the role of climate change in disappearing butterfly populations across the American West. And we ask: what does loss could mean for us, and what can we do about it? GUESTS: Elizabeth Kolbert - Staff writer at the New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. She wrote a cover story for National Geographic’s May 2020 issue about worldwide insect decline. Her new book is Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Dr. David Wagner - Entomologist and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn Dr. Matthew Forister - Insect ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Insects are the most abundant group of animals on the planet. There are an estimated 10 quintillion of them on Earth. But in recent years, scientists have found disturbing evidence that insect populations are on the decline around the world. The environmental threats to insects are numerous: deforestation, pesticides, and climate change all seem to play a part in declining populations, a phenomenon UConn ecologist David Wagner and colleagues described as a “death by a thousand cuts” in a January 2021 special issue of PNAS dedicated to the issue of insect decline. This hour, we talk with the scientists and journalists trying to make sense of the precipitous decline in insect populations around the world.  We hear from a Nevada researcher whose recent study in the journal Science helps pinpoint the role of climate change in disappearing butterfly populations across the American West. And we ask: what does loss could mean for us, and what can we do about it? GUESTS: Elizabeth Kolbert - Staff writer at the New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. She wrote a cover story for National Geographic’s May 2020 issue about worldwide insect decline. Her new book is Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Dr. David Wagner - Entomologist and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn Dr. Matthew Forister - Insect ecologist at the University of Nevada, Reno Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Unless you’re lucky enough to live on another planet, you’ve probably heard about the climate crisis. It’s a problem we must address if we want humanity--and the rest of the Earth’s animal and plant population--to continue to survive and thrive. But in order for that surviving and thriving to happen, we must immediately and definitively cut emissions and begin the transition away from fossil fuels. How’s that going? As you’ve probably heard, not so well, and as a result, more radical approaches are increasingly in the mix. Geoengineering is one of these, and while it won’t solve the climate crisis, it may enable us to remove some of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted and even artificially lower global temperatures while we detox from fossil fuels. The catch? We don’t really know what would happen if we did it, and we may not be able to undo it. On this episode of “Who Is?,” it’s a look at one of the big choices we may have to make in the not so distant future.   Elizabeth Kolbert, who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. Her most recent book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” was published in February of 2021  Janos Pasztor, executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G). Pasztor was previously United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change in New York under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Roundtable Panel : a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are: WAMC’s Alan Chartock Judith Enck - Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, President of Beyond Plastics Jeff Goodell - long-time contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he has been writing about climate change for more than a decade. His most recent book is The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. In 2020 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Elizabeth Kolbert - staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 and won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "The Sixth Extinction." Her latest book “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” came out in February

Should humans consider things like solar geoengineering to address climate change? I was adamantly against it until I read Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky: The Nature of Our Future. Now - well - I'm open to it. There are a lot of questions regarding making huge decisions like this. Questions about cost, timeline, and scalability. But the biggest question of all still remains: Is it ethical to geoengineer our planet to address climate change?

Hosted by Friends' Executive Director Margaret Frisbie, this episode includes interviews with Emmy Award-winning public television writer, producer, and program host Geoffrey Baer; Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; and James Burns, president of the South Branch Park Advisory Council. Baer's new program, The Great Chicago Quiz Show, premiered Friday March 26 on WTTW and runs for four weeks. Baer is also the host of a fascinating Chicago River Tour which includes Bubbly Creek. Kolbert's new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, opens with a journey on Chicago River system Frisbie and Friends' Policy and Conservation Manager, John Quail.

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.For a transcript & to shop this episode, click here.Please make sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode!To shop books and products mentioned in this episode visit: indigo.ca/podcast 

This week, Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. In her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert again writes about humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? (more…)

This week, Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. In her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert again writes about humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Photo courtesy of […]

Christine Schraner Burgener, U.N. Special Envoy on Myanmar, discusses the ongoing unrest in the country where defiant protesters returned to the streets again today after security forces killed at least 18 on Sunday, according to the UN. Ben Hubbard, The New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief, talks about the Biden administration's handling of the release of the intelligence report into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and relations in the region. Nischelle Turner, host of "Entertainment Tonight", discusses the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Elizabeth Kolbert, author of "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future", about the unintended consequences of our efforts to solve the climate crisis.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Kate and Daya talk with Lauren Oyler, one of the country's leading literary critics, about her first novel, Fake Accounts; which is about a central character who breaks up with her boyfriend after discovering that he's an online conspiracy theorist. She then moves to Berlin where goes on a series of dates under different personas. The conversation addresses online culture and its influence on 21st century notions of subjectivity, secrecy, romance, and literature. Also, Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, returns to recommend two books by David Quammen - the highly prescient Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Pandemic (published in 2012) and The Song of the Dodo.

In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and industrial expansion. In today's real-world, scientists are looking to geoengineering and other human innovations to preserve the wellbeing of life on Earth. “What we're missing is a way to galvanize people to support policies that are actually gonna change,” says Jeff Biggers, founder of The Climate Narrative Project. So how can climate storytelling help us reckon with our changing environment? Do we need a new climate narrative to help us understand and solve the climate emergency? Guests: Jeff Biggers, Founder, The Climate Narrative Project Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff Writer, The New Yorker Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Author Related Links: Climate Narrative Project Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition The Ministry for the Future Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global Warming and natural disaster have been quite a "hot" topic these days with the rise of the hurricane, and the changes of temperature. WHAT do we know about carbon emission? Can we eliminate carbon emissions? Can we save species from going extinct? In this episode, I sat down with the American journalist, author, and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Elizabeth Kolbert to talk about her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, and we break down exactly all the questions that I mentioned above! I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Hosts Kate and Medaya are joined by New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert, whose new book is called Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, in which Kolbert explores the many ways humans intervene in nature. Kolbert discusses invasive species, the sinking of New Orleans, the triage plan for climate change and how solar geoengineering might bleach our skies.  Also, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, returns to recommend Children of the Land by Marcello Hernandez Castillo.

This week, Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. In her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert again writes about humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Photo courtesy of Random House/ Crown Publishing.