Book Review: Under a White Sky (2021). Elizabeth Kolbert.

Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer for The New Yorker, is one of the very best contemporary authors on the environment, nature and climate change.   In her previous book, The Sixth Extinction, she explored the concept of the Anthropocene (the human-dominated geological age, in which we now live), and discussed the massive species die-offs that have been a consistent but now-escalating feature of the rise of human civilization on the planet.  

In this book, she looks at what climate change has already done to nature and the natural world, explores questions of what it means to have a human-managed “natural” environment, and offers thoughts on what we can and should do now to avert the worst impacts of global warming and our destructive effects on the planetary ecology.  

This is must reading for anyone concerned about climate change and our collective future as the apex species on Earth.  Recommended.