Under a White Sky
About this book
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.
Subjects
- durabilité de l'environnement
- ecological engineering
- écologie humaine
- effect of human beings on
- environmental)
- environmental conservation & protection
- environmental management
- environmental protection
- environmental science (see also chemistry
- environnement
- génie écologique
- global warming & climate change
- homme
- human ecology
- influence sur la nature
- nature
- nature, effect of human beings on
- new york times reviewed
- protection
- science
- sustainability