Under a White Sky
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| Author | Elizabeth Kolbert |
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| Original title | First edition |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group |
Publication date | 2021 |
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a 2021 environmental book by Elizabeth Kolbert.[1] The book follows many of the themes she explored in The Sixth Extinction.
Under a White Sky is focused on the various kinds of environmental crises created by the Anthropocene and different degrees of technological solutions available to humanity to address them – while also being critical of full-blown techno-solutionism.[2][3]
The title refers to the most extreme climate change mitigation strategy, solar geoengineering, designed to reflect sunlight from the earth.[2] Throughout the book she explores how a technological fix for one problem can lead to further problems while also acknowledging the important role those technologies might play.[4]
