“What makes Under A White Sky so valuable and such a compelling read is Kolbert tells by showing. “ exhibits Kolbert’s sculptor-like skill for making climate change feel tangible, happening before our eyes and beneath our fingers.” - Wired “A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time.” - Nature It’s a tribute to Kolbert’s skills as a storyteller that she transforms the quest to deal with the climate crisis into a darkly comic tale of human hubris and imagination that could either end in flames or in a new vision of Paradise.” -Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone “To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert.
Under a White Sky expertly mixes travelogue, science reporting and explanatory journalism.” - The Washington Post By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”-Helen Macdonald, The New York Times.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal.ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING.
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