Climate Action | Elizabeth Kolbert, Jonathan Mingle, Bill McKibben

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.

You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her latest book is H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z. (October 2024)

Jonathan Mingle

Jonathan Mingle is the author of Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World and Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future, which was published last year. (April 2025)

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is a Founder of ThirdAct.org and the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury. His latest book, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, was published last year. (October 2023)

Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review and a columnist for The Irish Times. His book Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life was reissued last year. (June 2025)