Elizabeth Kolbert

One of the reasons that people, many people, many environmentalists are critical of President [Barack] Obama's policies towards global warming is on…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Such is the economy of nature," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "that no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Darwin’s familiarity with human-caused extinction is also clear from On the Origin of Species. In one of the many passages in which…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact.…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Adding carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, to the atmosphere by, say, burning fossil fuels or leveling forests is, in the…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…

— Elizabeth Kolbert