“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“At the Biesbosch nature center, I met up with a water-ministry official named Eelke Turkstra. Turkstra runs a program called Ruimte voor… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“We have to face the quantitative nature of the challenge,” he told me one day over lunch at the NYU faculty club.… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“So we may look at this and say, ‘We are tampering with the earth.’ The earth is a twitchy system. It’s clear… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The record from the Vostok core shows that CO2 levels and temperatures have varied in tandem. Current CO2 levels are unprecedented in… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Such is the economy of nature," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "that no instance can be produced, of her having permitted any one race… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“A few years ago, in an essay in Nature, the Nobel Prize–winning Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen coined a term. No longer, he… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The size of the greenhouse forcing is estimated, at this point, to be 2.5 w/m2. A miniature Christmas light gives off about four tenths… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive -… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Crutzen wrote up his idea in a short essay, “Geology of Mankind,” that ran in Nature. “It seems appropriate to assign the term ‘Anthropocene’… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying around is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“As the effects of global warming become more and more difficult to ignore, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and,… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
