Climate Action | Elizabeth Kolbert, Jonathan Mingle, Bill McKibben

The New York Review of Books presents the fourth installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole. New York Review contributors Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Jonathan Mingle join O’Toole for a conversation on the damage a second Trump administration can bring to already meager efforts to curb global warming.

You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her latest book is H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z. (October 2024)

Jonathan Mingle

Jonathan Mingle is the author of Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World and Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future, which was published last year. (April 2025)

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is a founder of ThirdAct.org and the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury. His book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization was published last year. (January 2026)

Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole is the Advising Editor at The New York Review and a columnist for The Irish Times. His most recent book is For and Against a United Ireland, cowritten with Sam McBride.