EAN: 9781250062185

THE SIXTH EXTINCTION - ELIZABETH KOLBERT KARTON...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the
future of the world  blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a
powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyesOver 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  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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