Title Under a white sky : the nature of the future / Elizabeth Kolbert.

Publication Info.	Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	LP 304.2 KOLBERT	DUE 05-11-24

Edition	Large Print Edition.
Description	353 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium	large print rdafs
Series	Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction
	Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
Note	"Portions of this work originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Down the River -- Into the Wild -- Up in the Air.
Summary	"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; 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. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
	Human ecology.
	Environmental protection.
	Ecological engineering.
	Sustainability.
	Large type books.
	SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)
	NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
	Ecological engineering. (OCoLC)fst00901446
	Environmental protection. (OCoLC)fst00913324
	Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
	Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
	Sustainability. (OCoLC)fst01747391
Genre/Form	Large type books.
ISBN	9781432898021 (large print) (hardcover)
	1432898027 (large print) (hardcover)

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