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Under a white sky [large print] : the nature of the future / Elizabeth Kolbert.

Summary:

In Under a White Sky, 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. She examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781432898021
ISBN: 1432898027
Physical Description: 353 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Portions of this work originally appeared in The New Yorker"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Down the River -- Into the Wild -- Up in the Air.