Elizabeth Kolbert's book "The Sixth Extinction" investigates the future of Earth and the possibility of human extinction, based on natural history and Kolbert’s own reporting in the field.
Kolbert’s lecture will be based on her book, “The Sixth Extinction,” that describes how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.
"Notwithstanding the daunting prospect of climate disruption, we now know that the troops are there for the long fight, and they're in good spirit!"
-- Tom Stokes of Stockbridge, coordinator of the Pricing Carbon Initiative, and one of more than 300 Berkshire residents who took part in the Climate March.
The Berkshires Agricultural Society was founded in 1811 for the purpose of experimentation and improvement of all things edible — on the hoof, off the stalk, or out of the ground.
"It is not enough to just support the farmer; we need to support the land that supports the farmer."
-- Chef and author Daniel Barber, owner of Blue Hill Farm in Monterey
"If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.”
-- Elizabeth Kolbert in "The Sixth Extinction"
