Writer Elizabeth Kolbert on climate change
Listen 00:48:46Host Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with writer ELIZABETH KOLBERT, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, about her writing, the reality of climate change and fears of another mass extinction. Last night, Kolbert received the Richard Hopper Day Memorial Medal at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Tonight, in a free lecture that’s open to the public, KOLBERT speaks at Villanova University as part of their One Book Villanova program.
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