![]() ![]() ![]() We see this clearly in the first section of the book, "Down the River ," which she opens by recounting her time visiting the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Again and again, she shows humans attempting to create solutions to ecological problems created by solutions to earlier problems. She travels across continents to witness those human-made changes for herself and describes the devastation, sparing no details. She brings that methodology to her new book, again using personal experience to drive her narrative - the narrative that "a future is coming where nature is no longer fully natural."Īs in her previous work, Kolbert skillfully shows us how our actions are negatively affecting the planet, rather than just telling us that they are. In that book, she curated a powerfully moving collection of first-hand accounts detailing the disappearance of multiple species. A staff writer at the New Yorker since 1999, where her work has been focused mainly on environmentalism, Kolbert is the best-selling author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. In her sobering yet captivating book, Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Elizabeth Kolbert examines the ongoing human attempt to control nature, a vicious cycle that often results in the creation of more problems. ![]()
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