Pulitzer Winner Shares Grim Forecast

Author and New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert spoke at Yale University Feb. 17.

SixthExtinctionCoverThe audience for this particular Yale University event was small, about 20 students. But the words spoken by New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert (Class of 1983) were hugely ominous.

From Yale News reporter Natalia Lopez’s summary of the Feb. 17 tea at Saybrook Master’s House:

“There is one thing I can guarantee you, [climate change issues] are not going away in the course of your lifetime,” Kolbert said. “They will be the defining issues of the next century.”

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