Under a White Sky - The Nature of the Future

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

About the author

Elizabeth Kolbert is a prize-winning journalist, author and visiting fellow at Williams College, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Under a White Sky and H is for Hope. 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.

Summary

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.

Report

Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting Helen Macdonald, New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Kolbert
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2022
• EAN: 9781784709167
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-916-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Climate Change, Evolution, popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Social forecasting, future studies, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Genetic Engineering, Conservation of the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, Science / Environmental Science, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Earth Sciences, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Environmental science, engineering and technology