UNDER A WHITE SKY

That man should have dominion over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth is a prophecy that ha s hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that its said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocen e. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists w ho are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave/ engineers who are turning carb...[Read more]