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05099cam a2200757 i 4500 001 6A53D5B62A1811EF969C42E545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240614013622 008 201020t20212021nyuab b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020047398 020 $a 0593136284 020 $a 9780593136287 020 $a 059323877X 020 $a 9780593238776 020 $a 0593136276 020 $a 9780593136270 035 $a (OCoLC)1204267264 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d TOH $d CGL $d ILC $d HHO $d YDX $d VP@ $d INR $d UOK $d YUS $d EAU $d YDM $d GZN $d DLC $d TCH $d OMB $d GYG $d Z#6 $d OCLCO $d QGQ $d SAD $d CGN $d OCLCO $d LE# $d CASUM $d OCL $d ZR1 $d KMS $d MAS $d MBB $d PWQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCL $d SILO 041 $a eng 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GF75 $b .K65 2021 082 00 $a 304.2/8 $2 23 084 $a 43.47 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Kolbert, Elizabeth, $e author. $4 aut 245 10 $a Under a white sky : $b the nature of the future / $c Elizabeth Kolbert. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Crown, $c [2021] 300 $a 234 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232). 505 0 $a Down the river -- Into the wild -- Up in the air. 520 $a The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? 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 this book, the author takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. 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. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says the author, 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, this book is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face. -- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The author takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. One way to look at human civilization, she says, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. She explores the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. From the Mojave to Iceland and Australia, she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. -- Adapted from jacket. 586 $a Massachusetts Book Awards Honors (Nonfiction), 2022 650 0 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on. 650 0 $a Human ecology. 650 0 $a Environmental protection. 650 0 $a Ecological engineering. 650 0 $a Sustainability. 650 12 $a Ecological and Environmental Phenomena 650 6 $a EÌtres humains $x Influence sur la nature. 650 6 $a EÌcologie humaine. 650 6 $a Environnement $x Protection. 650 6 $a GeÌnie eÌcologique. 650 6 $a DurabiliteÌ de l'environnement. 650 7 $a human ecology. $2 aat 650 7 $a environmental protection. $2 aat 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Ecological engineering $2 fast 650 7 $a Environmental protection $2 fast 650 7 $a Human ecology $2 fast 650 7 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on $2 fast 650 7 $a Sustainability $2 fast 650 7 $a Human influence on nature. $2 sears 650 7 $a Human ecology. $2 sears 650 7 $a Environmental protection. $2 sears 650 7 $a Ecological engineering. $2 sears 655 7 $a Informational works $2 fast 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Documents d'information. $2 rvmgf 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kolbert, Elizabeth, $t Under a white sky $d New York : Crown, 2021. $z 9780593136294 $w (DLC) 2020047399 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20240614081405.0 $n 12 $p 1 LP, 2 CD 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6A53D5B62A1811EF969C42E545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search