6/12/2023 0 Comments Under a white sky book![]() ![]() 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. 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. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. 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. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize winning author of 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? Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert € 24.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 4 weeks ![]()
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