By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. 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. Now, in her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (to be released February 9th), Kolbert explores many of the so-called solutions to the climate crisis, from genetically. 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.
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