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| Title | : | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | February 11th 2014 by Henry Holt and Co. (Georg von Holtzbrinck) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Science. History. Environment. Nature. Biology |
Elizabeth Kolbert
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 4.13 | 43607 Users | 4796 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History |
| ISBN: | 0805092994 (ISBN13: 9780805092998) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2015), Helen Bernstein Book Award Nominee for Excellence in Journalism (2015), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2014), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2014), PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Nominee for Shortlist (2015) Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (Shortlist) (2015), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (Finalist) (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014) |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 43607 Users | 4796 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Kolbert makes a compelling case that we are in the throes of a mass extinction citing example after example of our destruction of the environment and its inhabitants. Fortunately she is a gifted writer, so despite the bleak message we dont just put down this important book in despair. Reporting on scientists investigating threatened species, she identifies the many ways that we are putting all life at risk. Sometimes our unrestrained native instincts are responsible, others the shortsighted andSeemed a good time to float this bad mama-jama (spoiler alert: we're screwed):Looking for a good horror novel that will keep you up late at night? One that features the most remorseless, inventive, and successful serial killer to ever stumble into the written word? One whose body count grows exponentially as his appetite becomes more ravenous, never sated? One who is so adept at killing that he does so without even seeming to try? Well, I have just the ticket: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth
I often find that engineers (who sometimes believe they are demigods), go berserk at the mention of Greta Thunberg. How dare this child who does not know anything about science, make such statements about climate change? How dare she tell the world to make a paradigm shift and stop using fossil fuels? And - this is the most heinous crime of all - how dare so many people follow her? If there is a problem because of carbon emission (and they are sure there isn't) engineers would find a way out of
I've read a lot of non-fiction books that are dry and sometimes gets bogged down in details and others that are very engaging but rather light on the meat. And then sometimes, you get a very cogent work with a very rich sampling of science from all different quarters laid out in such a way that it is impossible to believe anything BUT the final summation.This is one of those works. We are in the middle of the sixth extinction event on Earth. The final result of the dieoff, as of just how many
splendid! delightful! holy hell, we are all fucked!
Her comment was like a knife in my heart. From my Boomer standpoint, it seems to me too many parents are focused on pressuring their kids, sometimes
I shied away from reading this for a while imaging that it would be, nay should be, grimmer than the grim saga of Grim Grimson the grim from Grimsby. But it is not, because the unrelenting grimness of mass extermination occurring now is overshadowed by the relentless bouncyness and vigour of the narrative style, if I was to descend in to crude stereotypes (view spoiler)[ which is one way of telling you that I am descending into crude stereotypes (hide spoiler)] then I would say that is is
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