Under a White Sky

Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction. She has received two National Magazine Awards and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Blake-Dodd Prize for her work at The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer.

The prophecy that man will have dominion "over all the land, and over every crawling thing that creepeth upon the earth" has become a reality. Human impacts on the world are so ubiquitous that we are believed to be living in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

Elizabeth Kolbert examines the new world we are building in Under a White Sky. Along the way, she meets biologists working to save the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave desert; engineers in Iceland turning carbon emissions to stone; Australian researchers working to develop a "super coral" that can survive in a hotter world; and physicists considering shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.

Kolbert describes human civilisation as a ten-thousand-year effort in defying nature. She investigated how our potential for destruction has changed the natural world in The Sixth Extinction. She now investigates how the very actions that have endangered our world are increasingly considered as the only option for its salvation. Under a White Sky is a completely unique analysis of the challenges we confront, at times inspiring, horrifying, and darkly funny.

Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

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