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Under a white sky : (Record no. 505688)

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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2020047398
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780593136270
Qualifying information hardcover
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0593136276
Qualifying information hardcover
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1204267264
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number GF75
Item number .K653 2021
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kolbert, Elizabeth.
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Under a white sky :
Remainder of title the nature of the future /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Elizabeth Kolbert.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Crown,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2021]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 234 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
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337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
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Source rdamedia.
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
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Source rdacarrier.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Down the river -- Into the wild -- Up in the air.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 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? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space and cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face"--
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650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sustainability.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ecological engineering.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Environmental protection.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Stacks 06/11/2021 2 2 GF75 .K653 2021 33039001496941 08/08/2024 03/22/2024 03/22/2024 1 Book

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