![]() “A highly engaging and insightful overview of some of our most pressing environmental crises the short-sightedness (and greed) that caused them and how, with a bit more humility and attentiveness to the natural world itself, we might extricate ourselves from problems we have caused for ourselves, our incredibly beautiful biosphere, and creatures large and small across the planet. ![]() The following summary adheres to a similar mode of explanation. It marries the past and present tenses, and follows a regular structural pattern. Under a White Sky demonstrates that humans have the capacity and creativity to develop large-scale technological solutions that may be necessary to address challenges in the climate system, but emphasizes that such approaches must be developed thoughtfully with an eye to long-term, far-reaching impacts.” – Dana Veron, Associate Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences and First Year Seminar Instructor Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is written from her first person journalistic point of view. ![]() Starting with an exploration of the downstream consequences the establishment of the Chicago’s Sanitary and Ship Canal had on the Mississippi River, and ending with a discussion of whitening the sky by adding reflective aerosols high in the atmosphere to decrease solar heating, Kolbert guides readers through the intertwined impacts and feedbacks that human-developed control on natural systems can have. “In her new book, Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert explores the complex impacts of large-scale technological solutions to environmental problems. ![]()
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