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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20271527
作者：
Kolbert, Elizabeth
定價：
630
會員價：
$536
ISBN：
9780593238776
出版年份：
2021
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert普立茲獎得主 Elizabeth Kolbert 繼 The Sixth Extinction《第六次滅絕：非自然史》後再推新作在對大自然予取予求這麼久、造成巨大的傷害後，我們還能夠挽救嗎？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 it’s 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 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 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.
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