Under a White Sky
Can we save the natural world in time?
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Mar '22
Should be back in stock very soon
The author of the international bestseller 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?
Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time?
'Important, necessary, urgent' Helen MacDonald
'Meticulously researched and deftly crafted' Guardian
Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting * Helen Macdonald, New York Times *
Smart * Bill Gates *
A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age * Guardian *
Riveting * Washington Post *
A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time * Nature *
One of the great science journalists, Kolbert has for many years been an essential voice, a reporter from the front lines of the environmental crisis... Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting... Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment; time to work with what we have, using the knowledge we have, with our eyes fully open to the realities of where we are -- HELEN MACDONALD * New York Times *
Skilful and subtle -- Ben Ehrenreich * Guardian *
Kolbert's prose is peppered with...mordant observations, which bring out the humanity (or animality) in her subjects -- Ben Cooke * The Times *
A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age -- Jonathan Watts * Guardian *
A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time * Nature *
ISBN: 9781784709167
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 20mm
Weight: 225g
256 pages