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b'Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.\\n\\n\\u201cI still nurse the idea in my heart of hearts that something you write, that there\\u2019s some key to this all. We\\u2019re all looking for the skeleton key that\\u2019s going to unlock it, and people will go, \\u2018Oh, that\\u2019s why we have to do something!\\u2019 I don\\u2019t want to say that I completely dispensed with that. I think that\\u2019s what motivates most journalists\\u2014this information is going to somehow make a difference. On the other hand, I have dispensed a lot of that. Now we\\u2019re so deep into all of this. The more you know about climate change and the numbers involved and the scale involved of what we need to do to really mitigate this problem, you know that we\\u2019re moving in absolutely the wrong direction. It\\u2019s not like we\\u2019re moving slowly, we\\u2019re moving in the wrong direction. It\\u2019s very hard to say anything I write is going to turn this battleship around.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Skagen, Squarespace, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@ElizKolbert\\nKolbert on Longform\\n[0:10]The TED Interview\\n[0:45]Underdog\\n[2:20] The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Picador \\u2022 2014)\\n[2:25] Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury \\u2022 2006)\\n[7:55] "The Fate of Earth" (New Yorker \\u2022 Oct 2017)\\n[22:30] "The Calculator" (New Yorker \\u2022 Nov 2002)\\n[28:45] The End of Nature (Bill McKibben \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2006)\\n[40:05] "The Climate of Man" (New Yorker \\u2022 Apr 2005)\\n[40:20] "The Darkening Sea" (New Yorker \\u2022 Nov 2006)\\n[40:30] "Enter the Anthropocene\\u2014Age of Man" (National Geographic \\u2022 Nov 2006)\\n[40:30] No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies (William Vollman \\u2022 Viking \\u2022 2018)\\n[40:35] No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies (William Vollman \\u2022 Viking \\u2022 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'