Novelist Richard Powers and author and environmentalist Bill McKibben examine the essential conflict taking place on our planet between humans and nonhumans. Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory, is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests
Bill McKibben’s most recent book, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, examines how new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. McKibben is a founder of 350.org, an international environmental organization addressing the climate crisis and whose goal is to end the use of fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy by building a global, grassroots movement.