Under the white sky. How man changes nature. KOBERT E

The dominion was predicted “over sea fish, and over the birds of heaven, and over every animal reptiles on the earth,” and this prophecy became a reality. Our influence on the planet is so great that, in generally accepted opinion, we joined the new geological era - anthropocles. Elizabeth Kolbet laureate of the Pulitzer Prize returns to the topic of humanity on the environment and wonders: having caused so much harm to nature, can we change it again - this time to save? For the Kolbert, the whole history of human civilization is a confrontation with nature in a length of 10,000 years. But the same approach, which threatened life on the planet, is increasingly seen the only hope of salvation.

In the book “Under the White Heaven”, she describes the new world created by us, where physicists are already studying the possibility of spraying tiny diamonds in the stratosphere in order to cool the earth. In the Mohava desert, she meets with biologists who are trying to preserve the most rare fish in the world; in Iceland - with engineers who turn carbon emissions into stones; In Australia - with researchers who are trying to withdraw “Supercorals”, capable of surviving global warming. The Kolbert either inspires hope, then scares, then makes him smile sadly. “Under the White Sky” - this is not a similar story about the challenges that faces all of us.