The New York Review of Books presents the second in a series of online events in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Join New York Review contributors Bill McKibben and Rhiana Gunn-Wright for a conversation about the fate of the environment in a Harris or Trump presidency.
The conversation will last approximately 90 minutes, including a question-and-answer period.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a member of the Evergreen Advisory Board. As the policy director for New Consensus, Rhiana was one of the intellectual architects of the Green New Deal. She is the author of the critically acclaimed essay “The Green New Deal for All of Us” and has written for The New York Times. She is currently at work on a book about the climate crisis.
Bill McKibben is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice. He is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion Magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, Outside, and Grist. His latest book is The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon (2022).
When: October 16, 2024, 6:30pm ET