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发表于2025-03-24
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.
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評分对于这本书的首要感受,就是这个书名和封面让人完全提不起兴趣看……但是读了之后真的手不释卷啊。 作为一本科普书,这本写的可谓出彩,获得普利策奖当之无愧。 首先作者的文笔真的很优美,无论是描述自然环境,写历史,还是各种反思,都有一种美感。而且虽然从内容来看,作者...
評分 評分对于这本书的首要感受,就是这个书名和封面让人完全提不起兴趣看……但是读了之后真的手不释卷啊。 作为一本科普书,这本写的可谓出彩,获得普利策奖当之无愧。 首先作者的文笔真的很优美,无论是描述自然环境,写历史,还是各种反思,都有一种美感。而且虽然从内容来看,作者...
評分The Sixth Extinction pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025