Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Kolbert's follow-up to the Sixth Extinction visits the interventions being made to save what remains — the gene-edited coral, the assisted evolution, the solar geoengineering that would turn the sky white. The tone is not hopeful. The solutions require the same kind of technological confidence that caused the problems. She is watching humans try to use the disease as the cure, and she is taking notes.