Our Climate Past and Future: An Evening with Elizabeth Kolbert

In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, Bard College Berlin's writer-in-residence, prominent journalist and Pulitzer Prize laureate, Elizabeth Kolbert, will share stories, impressions, and prognoses from the frontlines of a changing climate. Kolbert will speak to the way humans are changing the world around them, and how those changes reflect back on humanity. She will also address the current state of climate politics and policy in the U.S. and Europe—a gap in approach and even basic understanding that is quickly widening to a gulf. Is it possible to speak of a shared transatlantic climate policy, or even climate understanding? And can technology save us if politics doesn’t? The evening will draw on Kolbert's decades worth of reporting from faraway glaciers, seas, and rainforests, to surface both the on-the-ground effects of a warming planet and also the increasingly dysfunctional, too-little, too-late politics surrounding the climate crisis.

This event is part of Bard College Berlin's fall event series, “Writing Democracy: Stories, Ideas, and Arguments On and Off the Page,” held in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

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Joshua Yaffa is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Bard College Berlin. He is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, which won the Orwell Prize in 2021.

Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of multiple award-winning books on climate change and the human effect on the environment, including The Sixth Extinction, which won the Pulitzer Prize. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where her work received two National Magazine Awards.

Time: 7:00 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

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