Resulting extinctions have inspired "a new. Kolbert discusses humans' negative impact on nature. The water in the canal is now toxic and electrified. This project ultimately disrupted the flow of water throughout the United States. Changing the river's direction was an attempt to control nature. The canal "opened at the start of the twentieth" century and "compelled the Chicago to change its direction" so the city's sewage “would flow away from it" (5). Because of the recent heavy rains, the canal has experienced a sewer overflow. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the. Kolbert describes her ride down the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on "a pleasure craft named City Living" (4, Kolbert's italics). Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment.
At times, such metaphors can be dangerous. Rivers often "stand for time, for change, and for life itself" (3). By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.In "Down the River," Chapter 1, Kolbert discusses the metaphoric significance of rivers. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. Along the way, she meets scientists 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.
The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it?Įlizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert 10,245 ratings, 4.11 average rating, 1,396 reviews Open Preview Under a White Sky Quotes Showing 1-30 of 30 I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one. The New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment in Under a White Sky. AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021
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