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Under a white sky : the nature of the future
\"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 Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert 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 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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Zero Growth Instead of never-ending expansion,; McKibben makes a case for self-sustaining economies
In the fall of 2004, [Bill McKibben] undertook what he calls a \"modest experiment.\" He resolved to spend the next six months - months that included January, February, and March - eating nothing but locally grown food. Owing to the consolidation of American agriculture, and the fact that McKibben lives in central Vermont, the challenge was substantial. Not only did it mean no coffee, or bananas, or potato chips, or chocolate, it meant, in the middle of winter, no vegetables - save for root crops - that hadn't been frozen. (The challenge would have been even more daunting had it not been for a single farmer who still, stubbornly, grows wheat in the Champlain Valley.) The experiment had a twofold purpose. On the one hand, McKibben wanted to learn how much agricultural infrastructure was left in the region. On the other, he wanted to consider alternatives to the deracinated, globalized, chemically fertilized, microwave-on-high-for-one-minute ethos that underlies contemporary life. At the end of the period, he reports in his new book, \"Deep Economy,\" he probably had spent less money on food - eating a locally produced egg for breakfast turns out to be less expensive than, say, eating Cheerios - but a great deal more time on it. \"I've had to think about every meal, instead of wandering through the world on autopilot,\" he writes.
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Under a white sky : the nature of the future
\"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 Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert 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 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\"-- Provided by publisher.
H is for hope : climate change from A to Z
\"In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future\"-- Provided by publisher ; back cover
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The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change
\"A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change-including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more\"-- Provided by publisher.
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