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Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
其他書名
Can We Save the Natural World in Time?
出版
Penguin Random House
, 2022
主題
History / Civilization
Nature / Ecology
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Science / General
Science / Environmental Science
Science / Life Sciences / Evolution
Science / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Science / Global Warming & Climate Change
Social Science / Future Studies
Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General
Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Pollution Control
ISBN
1784709166
9781784709167
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XlB1zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that its said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. 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 worlds 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 look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now 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.