Lunch Talk: Reporting on Earth’s Deadline

Basic climate science has been well understood for nearly forty years. Journalists have been steadily reporting on it for more than twenty. And yet, fossil fuels remain dominant, global greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, and Earth is hotter now than at any other point in human history. The climate emergency has already impacted millions of people, and the remaining years of this decade are crucial for preventing the most cataclysmic scenarios. How can journalists rise to the challenge?

Join Carolyn Kormann (Journalism) in conversation with Eliza Griswold (Journalism) on the role that climate change now plays in almost every issue and story of our time. Kormann, a leading chronicler of the pervasive challenges of the Anthropocene for the New Yorker, will talk about her work, her forthcoming book, and how she personally fights climate despair after nearly two decades of reporting on this crisis.

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