The Sixth Extinction pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025
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.
- 科普
- 英文原版
- 古生物
- Environmental
- 曆史
- 自然科學
- 生物
- Biology
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.
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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...
評分 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...
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人無法徵服自然，因為人屬於自然。。就像桃榖六仙打趣說的，令狐衝是我們兄弟，令狐衝就是桃榖六仙，桃榖六仙就是令狐衝，這世上哪有自己打敗自己的是呢。。
评分不管是絕望的還是留有希望的那些故事，其實內容大部分都知道。況且當前很多現實更加可怕。作為科普，絕對推薦。想起作者去年來學校演講，說到在Anthropocene，all options are bad，what differs is how worse.
评分不管是絕望的還是留有希望的那些故事，其實內容大部分都知道。況且當前很多現實更加可怕。作為科普，絕對推薦。想起作者去年來學校演講，說到在Anthropocene，all options are bad，what differs is how worse.
评分最近覺得豆瓣好無聊，忙著看這本書，超好看。
评分非常推薦。聽得全本書，經常一不小心就漏掉幾句。因為專業是環境，也上過General Ecology, Plant Ecology的課。很多內容聽著就像是復習課本，並沒有太多新鮮的知識點。但是很喜歡的原因是：1.作者把生態上那些關鍵物種，幾次大滅絕的發現過程寫的非常清楚。讓人瞭解古生物學的生態學的發展脈絡。書本上或者看相關文章我們學到的是研究的結果和現狀，她卻講述瞭從古生物學之父Georges Cuvier從18世紀開始研究乳齒象消失之後科學傢如何探尋前五次大滅絕的過程。2. 寫的非常好。這本書太容易些的枯燥，充滿術語，或者煽情，麵對那麼多次滅絕，也容易雜亂，作者做瞭大量案頭和采訪，自己也跟著齣野外。但這本書邏輯清晰，語言樸實，所有術語都會跟著有清晰的解釋，聽來非常順暢。
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