UNDER A WHITE SKY : the nature of the future.

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? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing tha...

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Autor principal: KOLBERT, ELIZABETH
Formato: Livro
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: [S.l.] : THE BODLEY HEAD LTD, 2021.
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