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Under a White Sky : The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert, Joan Lluís Riera is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Under a White Sky : The Nature of the Future about?
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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?RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Smithsonian Magazine, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal • “Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment.”—Helen Macdonald, The New York Times 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. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, 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; engineer
Who reads Under a White Sky : The Nature of the Future?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Elizabeth Kolbert, Joan Lluís Riera
- Publisher
- New York: Crown
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780593136294
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Nature, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (1,740 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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