Elizabeth Kolbert
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and forthcoming “Life on a Little-Known Planet”, out in November. Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
- It was a pleasure speaking to Willow Defebaugh about the Nature Of, well, everything:
- "Manufacturing construction spending, which surged with Biden-era funding for chips and renewable energy, fell in each of Trump’s first nine months in office."
- "Forests that once teemed with maple, sweet gum, bald cypress and stately pines have given way to scrubland."
- My freedom, your kid's paralysis:
- This is really going to help:
- Reposted by Elizabeth KolbertThis is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
- “It’s terrifying to think of the upcoming fire season."
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- It was raining on this protest in Nuuk. Temperatures in Greenland have been absurdly warm recently. THAT is what we should be talking about.
- "On company earnings calls, mentions of words like climate and sustainability have plunged by 75 percent over the past year."
- “We’re not going to sell our soul."
- Trump's war on EVs "isn’t industrial policy; it’s industrial suicide."
- “This is not the right direction." To say the least.
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- Reposted by Elizabeth Kolbert2025 was the hottest year on record for ocean heat content. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹 "In addition to setting a new record in 2025, the global ocean continues to show sustained and intensified warming." + #OpenAccess Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn
- Does Trump realize that all land in Greenland is publicly owned? Someone ought to let him know.
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- Killing the messenger:
- "The global coal demand increase of about 40mn tonnes this year was largely due to the US."
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- Excited to learn that @scifri.bsky.social" has chosen "Life on a Little-Known Planet" for its book club! Look forward to talking to them in March.
- Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.
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- Boast from EPA chief Lee Zelda: “We will do more deregulation in one year than entire federal governments in the past have done across all federal agencies combined.”
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- "So, what comes after failure?" Particularly timely reading as this year's COP heads toward a particularly miserable close: theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
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- The memes write themselves:
- Because endangered species don't have enough problems: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c...
- Thanks so much to @nowhari.bsky.social for a great interview on COP30, Bill Gates, my new book, and more.
- Another year, another record for carbon emissions:
- Whether the IEA's new projections means that it's bowing to political pressure or responding to political reality, this is a bad sign:
- Inaction is contagious. My take as we head into COP30:
- What you don't talk about still can hurt you.
- Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!
- "Keeping aging fossil-fuel plants open could cost U.S. consumers more than $3 billion annually."
- Lovely to receive the first copies of my new book, "Life on a Little-Known Planet." Thanks to www.evangaffneydesign.com for the great cover design.
- What we have wrought:
- Fortunate that @climatecentral.org is keeping the billion-dollar climate-related disaster list going, as the first half of 2025 was a doozy. You can read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- From the rally today in front of the American Embassy in Berlin:
- Where we are as a country:
- How Trump's tariffs will help destroy (what's left of) Brazil's Cerrado, from @sominisengupta.bsky.social
- A tale of two energy systems: “For coal, oil and gas, it’s white glove service. For renewables and storage, it’s freezes, delays and cancellations.”
- "This order is so atrocious, it’s nearly unbelievable."
