Berkeley Talks: ’Can we change nature - this time, to save it?’
Subscribe to Berkeley Talks , a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. Review us on Apple Podcasts. Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and the 2021 book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Kolbert) In episode 131 of Berkeley Talks, Pulitzer-Prize winning science writer Elizabeth Kolbert joined in conversation with David Ackerly, dean of UC Berkeley's Rausser College of National Resources, and Geeta Anand, dean of Berkeley Journalism, for the Fall 2021 Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation. Kolbert, a staff writer at the New Yorker, is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. 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?" "Was there one story that was the light bulb moment - wow, we're doing one crazy thing to fix the problems caused by the last crazy thing we did - when you saw that these examples are part of one story about how we relate with nature and that led you to pull them together into this book?” asked Ackerly at the November 2021 event. "Well, I wouldn't say there was an aha moment exactly,” said Kolbert.
