The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. New York Review contributors Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Jonathan Mingle join O’Toole for a conversation on the damage a second Trump administration can bring to already meager efforts to curb global warming.
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books, including most recently “H is for Hope: Climate Change from A – Z.” Her 2014 book “The Sixth Extinction” won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, and her 2021 book “Under a White Sky” was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post. She is the editor of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009” and co-edited “The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and Antarctic.” Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and has received a National Academies award, a Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication.
Bill McKibben is an author, educator, and environmentalist, who helped found 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, and who has recently helped found Third Act, to build a progressive organizing movement for people over the age of 60.
Jonathan Mingle is an independent journalist. His reporting and writing on the science and politics of climate change, the energy transition, health and technology has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Yale Environment 360, Undark Magazine, Slate, MIT Technology Review and other outlets. He is a recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. He is the author of two nonfiction books on energy and climate: Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World (2015) and Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future (2024).
About this series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues of the second Trump administration. In each conversation the New York Review‘s Advising Editor Fintan O’Toole will talk to a group of contributors and esteemed guests about critical subjects, including the rule of law, immigration, the state of the left, and the fate of the climate. Each event, held on Zoom, will last about ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.
