LIVE from NYPL: Kate Marvel & Friends: Feeling Climate Change
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The climate scientist is joined by a group of special guests to share insights, data, and stories that reflect how it feels to live in a changing world.

Each chapter of Kate Marvel’s new book, Human Nature, employs a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. Through talks, performances, and more, Marvel, David Wallace-Wells, Monica Youn, and Lauren Kurtz dive into some of the book’s emotions: anger, fear, and grief—and also wonder, hope, and love.
Kate Marvel shares some of the hope, heartbreak, and humor that she uses to help readers confront the questions about what future lies ahead and how we can help shape it.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and one of the premier science communicators working today. A former cosmologist, Marvel received a PhD in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. She led the “Climate Trends” chapter in the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment, has given a TED Talk, appeared on Meet the Press and The Ezra Klein Show, and testified before the U.S. Congress. She has written for Scientific American, Nautilus magazine, and the On Being Project. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
David Wallace-Wells is currently a columnist and staff writer at The New York Times, where he writes a weekly newsletter on climate change, technology and the future of the planet. He’s also written widely on the Covid-19 pandemic, bringing vital reporting and analysis to the science and policy coverage. He was previously the Deputy Editor at New York magazine, where he wrote a column on climate change, and where his viral cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” was met with widespread acclaim, paving the way for his book. Formerly the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review, and a National Fellow at the New America Foundation, he was the co-host of the podcast 2038, which interrogated predictions about the next two decades.
Monica Youn is the author of From From (Graywolf Press 2023), Blackacre (Graywolf Press 2016), Ignatz (Four Way Books 2010), and Barter (Graywolf Press 2003). She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a Stegner Fellowship among other honors. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the PEN Open Book Award. A former constitutional lawyer and the daughter of Korean immigrants, she grew up in Houston and now splits her time between Brooklyn and Southern California, where she is an associate professor of English at UC Irvine.
Lauren Kurtz is the executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. Prior to joining CSLDF in 2014, Lauren was a litigation associate at the international law firm Dechert LLP. At Dechert, she represented commercial and individual clients on a variety of multi-billion and multi-million dollar commercial disputes as well as litigation over Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, document discovery claims, and defamation claims. She has also held legal and policy positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and worked as a law clerk at an environmental non-profit group in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Lauren received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was involved in the Environmental Law Project.
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