Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

 

Virtual Program
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

March 17, 12:00 – 1:00pm CST (1:00pm – 2:00pm EST)

You’re Invited!

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert in conversation with Bulletin Editor-In-Chief John Mecklin as they discuss Kolbert’s newest book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. ​Her new book dives deep into geoengineering, the hopes and hazards it provides, and how it may be humanity’s path forward. Register here.

The New York Times notes, ​​​​”the people [Kolbert] meets are trying to reverse the course of man-made environmental disaster, whether that might involve electrifying a river, shooting diamond dust into the stratosphere or genetically modifying a species to extinction. She says that the ‘strongest argument’ in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: ‘What’s the alternative?’”
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