An edition of Under a White Sky (2021)

Under a White Sky

The Nature of the Future

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An edition of Under a White Sky (2021)

Under a White Sky

The Nature of the Future

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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.
One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.

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Crown
Pages
256

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Source title: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Classifications

Library of Congress
GF75.K65 2021, GF75 .K65 2021

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Format
hardcover
Number of pages
256

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30786221M
ISBN 10
0593136276
ISBN 13
9780593136270
LCCN
2020047399, 2020047398
OCLC/WorldCat
1204265412, 1204267264

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OL22857877W

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