#1703: Elizabeth Kolbert "Under A White Sky" | The Book Show

March 09, 2021 00:27:34
#1703: Elizabeth Kolbert "Under A White Sky" | The Book Show
The Book Show
#1703: Elizabeth Kolbert "Under A White Sky" | The Book Show

Mar 09 2021 | 00:27:34

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Show Notes

This week, Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. In her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert again writes about humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? (more…)

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