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Q&A: What an Author’s Trip to the Antarctic Taught Her About Climate—and Collective Action
Elizabeth Rush, author of “The Quickening,” reveals why the scientific journey to the famed Thwaites “doomsday glacier” offered senses of both peril and hope.
Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Elizabeth Rush, author of “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.”
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
State of Play
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.