Bajo un cielo blanco

That man should have dominion "over all the earth and over every reptile that crawls on it" is a prophecy turned into reality. So widespread is the impact of humans on the planet that we have categorized the time in which we live as a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most influential writers on the environment. She now investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we struggle to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we have had on the atmosphere, oceans, forests, rivers, and the very topography of the globe. In Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating, and along the way she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a small pool in the middle of the Mojave Desert. ; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a super coral that can survive in a hotter balloon; and physicists who are contemplating launching tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth, changing the color of the sky from blue to white.