“The unfortunate fact is that we have spent the last 15 years not doing what we should have done, and that means that the task has become significantly more difficult when dealing with climate change,” says Kolbert. Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of “Under a White Sky.” (Photo: John Kleiner/Courtesy of Penguin Random House) In 2014, she published the book “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” which would go to become a New York Times Bestseller and win the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. But her extensive coverage of climate change began in 2005 with “The Climate of Man,” a three-part series for The New Yorker. Back when she was a New York Times reporter, she occasionally wrote about the subject as it intersected with politics. Kolbert had long been interested in environmental issues.
We’ll see what happens over the next couple of years.” “When I started out, there was sort of a sense that if people knew what was going on, they would come to their senses and there would be this political change that we needed,” says Kolbert on a recent phone call from Massachusetts.
In that time, she says, her beat hasn’t changed as much as one might hope. For more than 15 years, Elizabeth Kolbert has been covering the impact humans have had on the environment.
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