Summary of Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky

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Get the Summary of Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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. 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781952482816

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author was on a boat trip down the Chicago River, which connects Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. The trip took her past several outflow pipes from sewage treatment plants.

#2

The Chicago River used to be the main source of the city’s waste, but was redirected in 1908 when the city built the Sanitary and Ship Canal, which allowed the waste to flow away from the city instead of into it.

#3

The United States has fundamentally transformed the environment through pollution, and now they want to do the same with the economy.

#4

Before the electric barriers were installed, the Chicago River flowed into Lake Michigan.

#5

The Sanitary and Ship Canal barrier was designed to keep out all four of the fish species that threaten the