# @pghartslectures on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-06-07T12:25:42.000+00:00
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⭐ "'Hope is the pillar that holds up the world,' Pliny the Elder is supposed to have observed. 'Hope is the dream of a waking man.' Go looking for hopeful climate stories and they turn up everywhere."
—Elizabeth Kolbert, H IS FOR HOPE

Don't miss Ten Evenings with Elizabeth Kolbert, author of H IS FOR HOPE, next spring! Kolbert will be joined by special guest Terry Tempest Williams. Full-season subscriptions are now open at the link in our bio 🔗

In twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.

Climate change resists narrative—and yet some account of what’s happening is needed. Millions of lives are at stake, and upward of a million species. And there are decisions to be made, even though it’s unclear who, exactly, will make them.

In H IS FOR HOPE, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change—from “A”, for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world’s first climate model in 1894, to “Z”, for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thurnburg’s “blah blah blah” speech (“B”), flies an all- electric plane (“E”), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body (“T”), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change (“U”).

Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker and beautifully illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook, H IS FOR HOPE is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous—a unique examination of our changing world.

Go to the link in our bio or pittsburghlectures.org to subscribe to Ten Evenings now! And remember, next season marks the return of post-leture book signings! 💜

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