The Sixth Extinction pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
- 科普
- 英文原版
- 古生物
- Environmental
- 曆史
- 自然科學
- 生物
- Biology
- 環境科學
- 生物多樣性
- 氣候變化
- 物種滅絕
- 生態危機
- 人類影響
- 科學探索
- 未來預測
- 保護行動
- 氣候變化影響
具體描述
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 eyes
Over the last half a 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 The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
著者簡介
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
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讀後感
读完之后觉得作者行文很乱，引用的文献事例太多，做了哥思维导图才发现，其实非常有条理，为自己的草率惭愧…… 其实第一章算是总述或是绪论，通过巴拿马金蛙的灭绝引出后面要讲的事情，第二到第四章开始讲述灭绝概念的出现、发展以及猜想，五到十一章正式讲述进入人类世之后...
評分伊丽莎白·科尔伯特的普利策奖获奖作品《大灭绝时代》，英文原名是“The Six Extinction”（第六次大灭绝）。这本书和气候变化及环境危机有关，但不是一本专门讲环保的书。它实际上就讲解了这么两件事： 随着地质学和古生物学等学科的发展，人类逐渐认识到地球历史上曾经发生过...
評分 評分课程作业，写完就贴上来了 他们进攻西洋杉时，吉尔伽美什砍到了森林中的第一棵树，恩基杜清除了直到幼发拉底河河岸的树根。 ——《吉尔伽美什之死》 这本书很早之前就读过了，当时应该是大一，和诸位年轻的朋友一样，一知半解的看下去，增长了不少知识。过了两年，修了古生物学...
評分开卷之前，我已经做好了沉重的心理准备，然而当真像映入眼帘时，还是被深深地刺痛了。掩卷之时，对我们还活在这个古老的时空中，心存感激。 很多人觉得，大灭绝离我们很远很远，远到根本无需去担心。他们总会说大灭绝是杞人忧天，却从来不摆实例证明自己的观点。没有数据与事实...
用戶評價
Good analysis. Conclusion not necessarily right.
评分不單是科普書，更是一本讓普通人瞭解科學研究者在科研事業上的日常工作，艱辛，責任與熱情。令人敬仰
评分好喜歡這本。有些還沒有被認識到，就已經消失。人類中心，人類世。
评分Although it is not easy to read because of the specialised terms, I can actually say that this book is an eye-opener, and it did broaden my horizon.
评分Good analysis. Conclusion not necessarily right.
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