PEI Taplin Environmental Lecture

Date
Feb 21, 2019, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 50

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Event Description

The Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) will host a conversation with journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in McCosh Hall, Room 50. Kolbert is speaking as part of the PEI Taplin Environmental Lecture Series.

Kolbert, who writes for The New Yorker and is a visiting fellow at Williams College in Massachusetts, will discuss with Princeton’s Stephen Pacala, the Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and past director of PEI, how humans are driving the loss of biodiversity and the future of a society in which most species and habitats have been destroyed.