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It is hard to imagine two people more qualified to speak on this issue than world-renowned chef Dan Barber and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Betsy Kolbert. The conversation will be moderated
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HF: Then, there’s always difficulties with science writing. How do you establish a kind of rhythm of exposition and scene that’s compelling? One way of doing it journalistically, and Elizabeth Kolbert has discussed this, is you have somebody in a scene talking about these things: “Here we are, walking on a glacier in Greenland, and we’re having a conversation about albedo, about ice, about the complexities of thermal absorption, and so on.” These are part of the storytellers’ armamentarium, and all of these things have to be used in inventive ways in order to get a piece that people will actually start and finish and ideally be a little bit changed by. It has to be an experience not simply of illumination but also of something effective, something emotional where we experience a sense of the costs and the perils.