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Under a White Sky
Can we save the natural world in time?
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Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world's forests and rivers - on the very topography of the globe.
In Under a White Sky, she takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.
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The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
Meet the biologists trying to save the world’s rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we’ve had on the natural world and asks: can we save the natural world in time?
‘Important, necessary, urgent’ Helen MacDonald
‘Meticulously researched and deftly crafted’ Guardian
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Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert is a meticulously researched work praised for its urgent and necessary examination of human intervention in nature. It is considered phenomenally interesting and smart, with the Guardian highlighting its craftsmanship in journalism and the Washington Post finding it riveting. The book is also described as a superb and honest reflection of contemporary challenges by Nature.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784709167
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 March 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 225g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe- Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999, and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
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