Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert on the UN Extinction Report

While the political tide could be turning on climate change, both writers worry that it is too late.

2019 Phil Lind Initiative speakers Bill McKibben and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss a new UN report that found that a million species could become extinct in the next few decades, with human life also potentially in danger. Both discuss recent political events amidst global climate change anxieties, and whether or not it is too late to change the tides of weather catastrophes.

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