Under a White Sky

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Can we save the natural world in time?

By Elizabeth Kolbert

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Summary

Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert explores humanity's attempts to combat environmental challenges and the unintended consequences of technological interventions. The book travels across the globe, from carbon-capture experiments to engineered coral, examining the delicate balance between innovation and the natural world. Through engaging narratives, Kolbert addresses the pressing question of whether our solutions will save the planet or alter it irreversibly.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in exploring humanity's complex relationship with nature and our attempts to address the environmental challenges we've created. Elizabeth Kolbert delves into fascinating stories of scientific innovation and intervention, providing insightful perspectives on ecological change and our efforts to modify the natural world.

Under a White Sky

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

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Education & Reference Elizabeth Kolbert Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Penguin Books Science & Nature

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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