by Elizabeth Kolbert · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847925459
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«Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future» is an essay by Elizabeth Kolbert, published by Bodley Head in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Elizabeth Kolbert examines projects to counteract climate change: preserving the rarest fish in the world in the Mojave Desert, turning CO2 into stone in Iceland, developing heat-resistant corals, or launching diamonds into the stratosphere. She reflects on the paradox of repairing nature with more human intervention.
A nonfiction work published in 2021; it was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the Goodreads Choice Award and the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize.
It will appeal to those seeking popular-science reads on climate change, the environment and nature.
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has covered politics and the environment.
