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# Elizabeth Kolbert online
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18338/
- Published: 2005-05-22T19:05:32.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:26.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

Thanks to [Douglas Coker](http://www.marklynas.org/wind/message/1464.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) for locating the third of three articles by Elizabeth Kolbert online [here](http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/050509fa%5Ffact3?ref=opendemocracy.net). She finishes with this question:

*'As the effects of global warming become more and more apparent, will we react by finally fashioning a global response? Or will we retreat into ever narrower and more destructive forms of self-interest? It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing'.*

(See also an earlier entry in this blog on Kolbert [The art of good science writing](http://www.opendemocracy.net/blogs/page/climateChange/20050424#the%5Fart%5Fof%5Fgood%5Fscience)).

CH