For decades, renowned environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert has taken readers to remote corners of the planet to understand how all <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/elizabeth-kolbert-climate-change/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">life is connected</a>—and how our planet is changing. She’s covered everything from the collapse of insect populations to the success of one town’s effort to go carbon neutral. 
Host Flora Lichtman speaks with Kolbert about the undeniable heaviness of our current climate moment, how the splendor of the Great Barrier Reef “tilted” her worldview, and the messy business of trying to solve environmental problems. 
In March and April, the <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Science Friday Book Club </a>is reading Kolbert’s latest book, “Life on a Little-Known Planet.” It’s a collection of essays she’s written over the years. Check out <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/scifri-book-club/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Book Club </a>to read along.
Guest:
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several books, including “Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World.”
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