Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

What a great follow-up to The Sixth Extinction. Whereas The Sixth Extinction is an explanation of—as the title suggests—the current ongoing mass extinction, Under a White Sky talks about all the problems that we humans have caused while trying to solve other (climate-related) problems. As in The Sixth Extinction, I love Kolbert's storytelling style, and how she uses different examples in each chapter to demonstrate her point. Instead of giving you a hypothesis in the beginning, and then continuing with different pieces of information to back up her point, she does it the other way round so that you form your own understanding of the topic without her having to make it so obvious... if that makes sense?

Under a White Sky mentions direct carbon capture and climate geoengineering quite a lot; I'd love to read more books on these topics to get a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the challenges that we face.

Overall, I think this is a great book and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about climate change.

Utterly fascinating. I will not be surprised if in 15 years it is argued that this is one of the most important books of the century.

Review to come.