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发表于2025-02-16
The Sixth Extinction pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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.
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.
I don't like the choice of words in this book yet this book is recommend by Bill Gates and takes approximately three hours to read. So why not?
評分3星半,和預期的很不一樣,要重讀一下。
評分人無法徵服自然,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。。
評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.
評分好喜歡這本。有些還沒有被認識到,就已經消失。人類中心,人類世。
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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 評分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The Sixth Extinction pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025