Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

by Elizabeth Kolbert

The term of art for such creatures is “conservation-reliant,” though they might also be called “Stockholm species” for their utter dependence on their persecutors.

We are Saturn, devouring our children.”

Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn’t finish the book.