In Under a White Sky, she tracks the spiralling absurdity of human attempts to control nature with technology. Kolbert’s most recent book evokes another disquieting sensation, a novel breed of vertigo. It’s like being stuck in a tunnel and, no matter which direction you attempt to dig, only going deeper. You also know that almost everything you might do will belch out carbon emissions that will blow us farther down the path to catastrophe. If you’re paying attention – and if you’ve read Elizabeth Kolbert’s previous books on climate and the ongoing mass extinction – you know that the Earth, its atmosphere, and its oceans are transforming in ways that will mean unimaginable hardships for humans and for billions of other living beings. B eing alive these days means enduring a strange and perhaps historically unique sense of claustrophobia.
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