Under A White Sky - bookrastinating.com

Hardcover, 256 pages

Published April 15, 2021 by Crown.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-13627-0

(1 review)

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.

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Review of 'Under A White Sky' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

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As for this book:

There's an amount of insight into the changing of our environments in a way that points to larger-scale issues that are likely to impact our way of life sooner, rather than later. When we hear about climate change and the impending climate catastrophe, we often only think of temperatures rising and some sort of apocalyptic scenario in which we all burn to a crisp. I think this book provides an important amount of context to what's going on now in the world that is directly linked to these changes and how they're only going to be exacerbated without some …

This is probably one of my last updates on Goodreads. I'm headed over to StoryGraph, an independent, black-owned website that has quite a bit of promise and a really strong recommendation system. Feel free to follow my account over there as it continues to get updates:

https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jansendotsh

As for this book:

There's an amount of insight into the changing of our environments in a way that points to larger-scale issues that are likely to impact our way of life sooner, rather than later. When we hear about climate change and the impending climate catastrophe, we often only think of temperatures rising and some sort of apocalyptic scenario in which we all burn to a crisp. I think this book provides an important amount of context to what's going on now in the world that is directly linked to these changes and how they're only going to be exacerbated without some sort of immediate action. It's a great primer for folks who want to know why climate change and human intervention matters, with numerous visible examples along with responses that are being considered.