Kolbert follows the efforts to control them, including electrical fields and gill netting.

The very qualities that make them a good food production fish in Asia (adaptability and constant eating for fast growth to a large size) make them a “good” invasive species. They outcompete native fish and break down ecosystems. These fish, which comprise four separate species, have infiltrated the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. The first case study Kolbert describes is invasive Asian carp. Rivers can signify destiny, or coming into knowledge, or coming upon that which one would rather not know. Some of our current solutions may be worse than the problems themselves. Her talent with language creates vivid imagery of a present and future that makes the reader think twice about the natural world and our role in it. The answer she unfolds shows entire regions overrun with invasive species, flooded cities, conservation-reliant species, and, the origin of the title, human interference with the atmosphere resulting in a sky that is not blue, but white.

Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.Elizabeth Kolbert’s latest work asks how the “nature of the future” will look– ecosystems fundamentally different under a changing climate. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. 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. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. 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. 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? Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert € 24.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 4 weeks

Under a white sky by elizabeth kolbert