Under a White Sky

Under a White Sky

by Elizabeth Kolbert

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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. One way to loo

ISBN: 9781784709167

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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein

Media & Journalism

"An incredible book."

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"New pod! .@ElizKolbert's new "Under A White Sky" is an incredible book. I read an early copy so we could have this conversation about the hard choices we're going to face in the coming years: Solar geoengineering, CRISPR gene drives, and more."

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Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Business & Entrepreneurship

"About a number of the ways that people are intervening with nature, including gene drive and geoengineering."

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