Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert

 

Under a White Sky:  The nature of the future by Elizabeth Kolbert is a climate action book.

Started:  1/21/2022
Completed: 1/24/2022
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody

Review:

This book takes a look at a variety of different efforts to deal with climate change.  None of it, really, is going to stop/solve climate change.  Rather it is a look at methods of coping with the impact of climate change with some nod to doing something to try to reduce the impact of climate change overall.  Repeatedly, scientists greet Kolbert and talk about the insanity of doing nothing about it.

Kolbert argues that this is a story of people trying to fix problems people caused.  Frankly, however, people are so omni-present and have such a huge impact on the world that people probably, one way or another, caused all the problems at this point.  So, it isn't simple "problems people caused" (although that is what she highlights), it is all the problems for the whole planet.  One wonders if it is even remotely possible or whether we will skitter and twist before the whole thing collapses on us.  Hubris is the word that describes our future and, sadly, our past.