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发表于2025-02-02
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.
文筆很好,在介紹科學理論時簡化得恰當好處,能讓讀者看懂又保留瞭一定的深度。通常對這類主題並沒有什麼興趣,不過想到文字背後的作者如何為瞭這本書的寫作而跑遍世界各地和學者們一起穿雨林鑽山洞,還感覺挺奇妙的。
評分讀瞭一個多月終於讀完瞭。雖然如果有時間肯定是一氣嗬成。欲罷不能,文筆很好。看瞭一下,翻譯版本也不錯的。本來是當曆史書看的,結果竟是故事書。
評分太好看瞭!
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。
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。。
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 評分作为书的译者,给自己的书写书评是件多多少少有些奇怪的事情。本以为无话可说,但等到落笔时才发现,想说的很多。一本书的译者大概也是最仔细的一位读者,一个词也不曾放过。然而越是读得仔细,越是有无数的想法,却受困于译者的身份,无处倾吐。借书评之机,随便说说吧。 (...
The Sixth Extinction pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025