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Mentioned in 6 episodes
Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
Book • 2021
In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating.
She meets biologists trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, engineers turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland, Australian researchers developing a 'super coral' to survive on a hotter globe, and physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Kolbert explores how human civilization's capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world and how the very interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.
The book is by turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic.
She meets biologists trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, engineers turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland, Australian researchers developing a 'super coral' to survive on a hotter globe, and physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth.
Kolbert explores how human civilization's capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world and how the very interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.
The book is by turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic.
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Mentioned in 6 episodes
Mentioned by David Remnick as the author of "Under a White Sky" and other books.
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Jill Lepore when discussing the challenges of addressing climate change through technology.
Jill Lepore when discussing the challenges of addressing climate change through technology.
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