#6 in Nature & environment
Under a White Sky
- 256
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Under a White Sky” is a fascinating, clear-eyed look at the fixes humans devise for the damage done by earlier fixes. Elizabeth Kolbert builds each chapter around a different case and explains it in plain, accessible terms, following on from “The Sixth Extinction”. Some readers find the topics uneven and certain descriptions needlessly graphic. Anyone wanting a concrete sense of where environmental repair is heading will find it illuminating.
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About the book
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a 2021 environmental book by Elizabeth Kolbert. The book follows many of the themes she explored in The Sixth Extinction.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 56 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Nature & environment average of 8.1. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 56 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Under a White Sky?
It has 256 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Nature & environment.
In this book
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