Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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“@ElizKolbert @BarackObama @praddenkeefe @tepingchen So well deserved. It's a great book! | New pod! .@ElizKolbert's new "Under A White Sky" is an incredible book. I read an early copy so we could have this conversation about the hard choices we're going to face in the coming years: Solar geoengineering, CRISPR gene drives, and more. | No, I love @ElizKolbert's book! Mustread.”
Source →“@ElizKolbert @BarackObama @praddenkeefe @tepingchen So well deserved. It's a great book! | New pod! .@ElizKolbert's new "Under A White Sky" is an incredible book. I read an early copy so we could have this conversation about the hard choices we're going to face in the coming years: Solar geoengineering, CRISPR gene drives, and more. | No, I love @ElizKolbert's book! Mustread.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Bill Gates and Ezra Klein
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Climate Change, Most Recommended Books, and Science.
In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who 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 carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to de...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Climate Change, Most Recommended Books, and Science.
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“@ElizKolbert @BarackObama @praddenkeefe @tepingchen So well deserved. It's a great book! | New pod! .@ElizKolbert's new "Under A White Sky" is an incredible book. I read an early copy so we could have this conversation about the hard choices we're going to face in the coming years: Solar geoengineering, CRISPR gene drives, and more. | No, I love @ElizKolbert's book! Mustread.”
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Consider The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Recommended by 12 sources.
“Reading feels brisk and combative: clear metaphors and thought experiments carry much of the book, making abstract evolutionary mechanics concrete for a general reader. The most useful material offers step-by-step dismantling of purposive explanations and replaces them with probabilistic accounts of variation and selection. Main limitation is tone and repetition—several chapters restate the same counterarguments at length—and occasional technical detours into probability and genetics that slow readers who prefer story over demonstration. No hands-on exercises.”
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