The Sixth Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert, Heinz Award-winning staff writer for the New Yorker and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (2006), comes to OSU to discuss her new book, The Sixth Extinction.

By burning fossil fuels, Homo sapiens are “reassembling the biosphere,” rapidly changing the atmosphere, the oceans, and the climate, forcing potentially millions of species into extinction. Kolbert’s compelling and enlightening report forthrightly addresses the most significant topic of our lives.

[rapauli]

This is a superb presentation by Kolbert, thank you so much for hosting, and recording and passing this along. 

[tomitstube]

stunning point by kathleen dean moore, 3:03. "over the last 40 years, our way of life has reduced the plant and animal populations on this planet by 40 to 50%, we will die in a world that is half as flourishing with plants and animals as the world we were born to."

[bealtainecottage]

A brilliant mind, Kolbert speaks with eloquence about such a sad state of affairs.

[dwant]

90% of animal species are extinct, humans at 7 billion and rising, massive deforestation can only lead to 1 outcome; extinction

[CrystalsandCandles]

Brilliant.  About as good a public speaker as I am....  but brillliant