by Elizabeth Kolbert
Kolbert investigates humanity's increasingly radical interventions in nature, from gene-editing coral to survive warming oceans to schemes to dim the sun. A probing examination of whether the same ingenuity that created the climate crisis can now save us from it.
In this collection, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future references 4 other books.
It draws on The Sixth Extinction, Silent Spring and Collapse.
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A direct sequel to Kolbert's own Sixth Extinction, shifting focus from documenting species loss to examining technological attempts to reverse it
Updates Carson's foundational concern about human interference with nature by exploring interventions designed to repair rather than harm ecosystems
Engages with Diamond's thesis on environmental collapse by asking whether technological intervention can prevent the collapses he documented
Complements Sheldrake's exploration of fungal networks by examining how human engineering of biological systems produces unintended ecological consequences
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
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