Author Visit: Christopher Pollon

Join us for an evening reading and Q&A with award-winning author and journalist, Christopher Pollon. His latest book Pitfall is a global investigation of mining—led by a secretive industry that enables most modern comforts, but simultaneously exacts staggering environmental and social costs. Pollon asks: How do we get the metals we need, including to save our civilization from climate change, without inflicting new harms on Indigenous peoples and fouling our collective nest?

AUTHOR BIO

Christopher Pollon is an award-winning Canadian freelance journalist and author focused on environment, business and the politics of natural resources. Covering a global beat of oceans, energy and mining, his writing has been published by National Geographic, VICE, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail and many more. He is a contributing editor at The Tyee, which is based in his home town of Vancouver, BC.

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