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OverviewThe author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most important writers on the environment. Here she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the natural world and asks - can we save the natural world in time? 'Important, necessary, urgent' Helen MacDonald 'Meticulously researched and deftly crafted' Guardian Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth KolbertPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.239kg ISBN: 9781784709167ISBN 10: 1784709166 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 03 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsImportant, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting * Helen Macdonald, New York Times * Smart * Bill Gates * A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age * Guardian * Riveting * Washington Post * A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time * Nature * One of the great science journalists, Kolbert has for many years been an essential voice, a reporter from the front lines of the environmental crisis... Important, necessary, urgent and phenomenally interesting... Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment; time to work with what we have, using the knowledge we have, with our eyes fully open to the realities of where we are -- HELEN MACDONALD * New York Times * Skilful and subtle -- Ben Ehrenreich * Guardian * Kolbert's prose is peppered with...mordant observations, which bring out the humanity (or animality) in her subjects -- Ben Cooke * The Times * A meticulously researched and deftly crafted work of journalism that explores some of the biggest challenges of our age -- Jonathan Watts * Guardian * A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time * Nature * Author InformationElizabeth Kolbert is the author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe- Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999, and has been awarded the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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