Elizabeth Kolbert Reihenfolge der Bücher

'To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert' ROLLING STONE Elizabeth Kolbert, one of our most influential writers on the environment and author of the seminal The Sixth Extinction, brings together her most urgent reporting and inspiring lessons from the frontlines of the climate catastrophe. We join Kolbert on the road as she travels to the corners of the earth most dramatically affected by climate change, revealing a world which is both dangerously fragile and remarkably resilient - from Greenland's melting ice sheets and Utah's shrinking lakes to New Zealand's protected mountaintops and Europe's regenerated plains. Along the way, we encounter newly discovered species and the last surviving members of others. We learn how to bring animals back from the brink of extinction. We see the power of rewilding up close and are reminded of the abounding wonders of our natural world. We also meet countless brilliant and dedicated individuals who are steering us towards a better future: scientists harnessing AI to commune with whales; activists successfully lobbying for the rights of nature; and ordinary people making extraordinary moves, such as the Samsø islanders leading completely carbon-neutral lives. The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our age. The natural world is changing profoundly, and the threats to our planet which Kolbert has spent her life exposing are only growing more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of this incredible world we are in danger of losing - and to act, while we still can. '[Kolbert is] the premier chronicler of humanity's thoughtless destruction of our habitat' WASHINGTON POST

In this young readers adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Adapting from her New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning adult nonfiction, Elizabeth Kolbert explores how humans are altering life on Earth.

Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, The New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

With twenty-six dazzling, interwoven pieces – one for each letter of the alphabet – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert creates an alternately hopeful and alarming manifesto on the climate crisis.

„Tato kniha je o lidech, kteří se snaží vyřešit problémy způsobené lidmi, kteří se snaží řešit problémy,“ komentuje soubor svých reportáží autorka. Zatímco v předchozí knize Šesté vymírání, za kterou získala Pulitzerovu cenu, názorně dokládá, jak je působením člověka svět přírody proměňován v samotné své podstatě, v novince Pod bílou oblohou se rozhodla zachytit posun v myšlení některých klimatologů: tytéž intervence, které naši planetu ohrožují, jsou těmito vědci stále častěji považovány za jedinou naději na její záchranu. Kniha, která umí být současně inspirativní i děsivá, nepostrádá nádech temného humoru, především však představuje originální pohled na éru antropocénu.

The book jacket design by art director Susanna Dulkinys conveys Elizabeth Kolbert's message through a pattern of life forms, contrasted with distorted elements in acid green to symbolize change and destruction. The typeface FF Hertz is used for its uni-width feature, while Christoph Koeberlin's Fabrikat serves for titles and headings, reflecting geometric design.

„Pod białym niebem. Natura przyszłości” Elizabeth Kolbert, laureatki Pulitzera, specjalizującej się w problematyce zmian klimatycznych, to książka poświęcona przyszłości natury, a raczej tego, co z niej zostało po stuleciach wpajanego nam przekonania, że to człowiek jest koroną stworzenia, a dzięki rozwojowi technologii możemy opanować przyrodę i podporządkować ją naszym celom. W XXI wieku widzimy już jasno, że interwencje w ekosystemy pchają nas ku katastrofie: globalne ocieplenie, anomalie pogodowe czy pandemia to najbardziej widoczne z konsekwencji. Pytanie, czy próby naprawiania (czytaj: kolejnego regulowania) wyrządzonych szkód mogą cokolwiek zmienić? Dziennik „The Washington Post” uznał ten tytuł za jedną 10 najważniejszych książek 2021 roku. Na liście książek, które zrobiły na nim największe wrażenie w minionym roku, umieścił ją również Barack Obama.

Exploring humanity's profound influence on the environment, the author examines the possibility of reversing ecological damage through intentional intervention. This thought-provoking narrative challenges readers to consider whether we can harness our capabilities to restore and preserve nature, rather than simply exploit it. With insights drawn from the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning background, the book delves into the urgent need for innovative solutions to environmental crises.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? From her coverage in The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of our most important writers on the environment. Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world's forests and rivers--on the very topography of the globe. In her trademark persuasive and darkly comic prose, Kolbert introduces myriad innovations that offer ways to avert disaster--or may produce new disasters, ones that haven't been and perhaps cannot be anticipated. We encounter the scientists attempting to save the Devils Hole pupfish, the rarest fish species in the world, who occupy a single pool in a limestone cavern in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; resilient "super coral" created via assisted evolution to survive a hotter globe; and researchers who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to scatter sunlight back to space, changing the sky from blue to white. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. Paradoxically, the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.

Aus dem biblischen Auftrag, sich die Erde untertan zu machen, ist düstere Realität geworden: Wir befinden uns mitten in einem Artensterben gigantischen Ausmaßes. Das Klima verändert sich, weil wir das Klima verändern. So tiefgreifend beeinflusst unser Handeln den Planeten, dass Wissenschaftler vom Erdzeitalter des Menschen sprechen, dem Anthropozän. In ihrem neuen Buch gewährt uns Elizabeth Kolbert einen Blick auf die Natur der Zukunft. Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin erzählt von Ingenieuren, die mit aberwitzigen Folgen für das Ökosystem den Verlauf von Flüssen ändern oder ganze Küstenstreifen vor dem ansteigenden Meerwasser schützen. Sie trifft Biologen, die den Teufelskärpfling, den wohl seltensten Fisch der Erde, retten wollen, und sie berichtet von den kühnen Plänen, CO2 aus der Luft zu saugen oder winzig kleine Diamanten in der Stratosphäre zu verteilen. Temporeich schildert Kolbert das Dilemma, vor dem wir stehen: Unsere Eingriffe in die Umwelt haben uns an einen Punkt geführt, an dem diese Versuche die letzte Hoffnung im Kampf gegen die globale Erderwärmung sind. Vielleicht sind sie aber auch der letzte Schritt auf dem Weg in die Klimakatastrophe.