Kolbert then describes the modification of the Chicago River, which underwent a major change in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.The book’s first section opens with a meditation on the metaphoric potential of rivers, which authors ranging from Mark Twain to Heraclitus have used to represent hidden meanings, destiny, and change. 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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