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Pulitzer Prize Winner on Trump Climate Policy & Bill Gates’ Climate Reversal

Episode 8036 | 18m 04s

The COP30 climate conference is where world leaders try to hammer out solutions to the growing climate crisis. This year the U.S. also boycotted that gathering. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert has been covering climate for over twenty years. Her new book is a collection of her essays. Kolbert joins us to reflect on what she's learned.

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