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Under a White Sky The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Kolbert's book examines humanity's attempts to control nature and the unintended consequences of those interventions, arguing that we are now forced to manage a world we have fundamentally altered.

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I'm Ezra Klein, and this is The Ezra Klein Show. So it's only February, but I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky is going to be on my best books of 2021 list. It's a wonderful work.

— Episode: Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have...

Episode: Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice?

Kolbert's book examines humanity's attempts to control nature and the unintended consequences of those interventions, arguing that we are now forced to manage a world we have fundamentally altered.

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I'm Ezra Klein, and this is The Ezra Klein Show. So it's only February, but I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a White Sky is going to be on my best books of 2021 list. It's a wonderful work.

your book of course is Under a White Sky it is phenomenal I loved reading it

99% Invisible

Podcast

99% Invisible

It explores human interventions in nature, including the introduction of cane toads and the use of CRISPR to modify them, as well as the complex issue of geoengineering and its potential solutions for climate change.

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What needs to be also understood is that the Chicago River In its original incarnation it flowed eastward into Lake Michigan which was and still is Chicago's sole source of drinking water

— Episode: Oops, Our Bad

Episode: Oops, Our Bad

It explores human interventions in nature, including the introduction of cane toads and the use of CRISPR to modify them, as well as the complex issue of geoengineering and its potential solutions for climate change.

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What needs to be also understood is that the Chicago River In its original incarnation it flowed eastward into Lake Michigan which was and still is Chicago's sole source of drinking water

They were introduced all around the world interestingly enough into the Caribbean into Hawaii and into Australia Under the theory and I don't know where this theory came from that they were going to eat the beetles or the beetle grubs that plague sugarcane crops

They did nothing. They did absolutely nothing for the sugarcane, but they were Like the Asian carp highly successful invaders.

They're particularly pernicious because they can eat anything So there's sort of detrimental to the everything below them on the food chain and they're so toxic They're detrimental to all the predators because if when a predator tries to eat them they kill them

The book expresses a lot of trepidation about even you know That we'd even be considering this. Um I think I described it in one interview as a sort of respectful horror

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