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.
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-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 prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
文/夏丽柠 在陕西佛坪县龙潭子保护区,当人们正为秦岭的雨蛙种群数量和生存区域有所增长和拓展而欢欣鼓舞的时候,在遥远巴拿马的埃尔巴耶镇,《纽约客》女记者伊丽莎白•科尔伯特也许正在为巴拿马金蛙的野外灭绝而扼腕叹息。 科尔伯特是美国知名记者、优秀的科普作家,著有...
評分每个时代都会有自己的经典,而与此同时,某些经典也因其特质,可以超越时代,被人们久久传读。比如在环保领域,《寂静的春天》就是这样的作品。它展示的是20世纪蕾切尔•卡逊对于“春天”不再拥有勃勃生机的忧心忡忡。而这种担忧蔓延至今,则已经变成了更实在的,也更可怖...
評分生物的演化是缓慢竞争和大规模灭绝共同决定的。 人类世被认为是一个新的地质时代,第六次生物大灭绝。所谓人类世生物灭绝,不在于人类是否保护动物,它真正的关键在于世界在人类的影响之下变化速度过快,生物没有时间适应新的变化而纷纷灭亡。 亿万年后,人类的时代也将只是地...
評分文/夏丽柠 在陕西佛坪县龙潭子保护区,当人们正为秦岭的雨蛙种群数量和生存区域有所增长和拓展而欢欣鼓舞的时候,在遥远巴拿马的埃尔巴耶镇,《纽约客》女记者伊丽莎白•科尔伯特也许正在为巴拿马金蛙的野外灭绝而扼腕叹息。 科尔伯特是美国知名记者、优秀的科普作家,著有...
終於讀完惹!!!!!!頭禿
评分可以從作品中看到這確實是一位很有實力並且經驗豐富的作傢,文筆生動,理論也很紮實,並且書後麵很清晰列齣瞭各種各樣非常厚實的reference list。(生詞也很多,讀到2/3已經沒有耐心查字典瞭…) 在探討人類、環境和其他生物的關係時也是非常理性和剋製的,不會抨擊自己不認同的觀點,在探討的時候就是單純探討,沒有想要通過作品的影響力去達到私人目的,這是讓我覺得很敬佩的地方。
评分Frogs, auks, bats, rhinos, reefs, Neanderthals. Artisan is how I find aptest to describe the delicacy of nature hand. And yet, like tourists' cursory glance at exhibits, no quintessence of nature vitality has ever reached we sightseers' eye.
评分可以從作品中看到這確實是一位很有實力並且經驗豐富的作傢,文筆生動,理論也很紮實,並且書後麵很清晰列齣瞭各種各樣非常厚實的reference list。(生詞也很多,讀到2/3已經沒有耐心查字典瞭…) 在探討人類、環境和其他生物的關係時也是非常理性和剋製的,不會抨擊自己不認同的觀點,在探討的時候就是單純探討,沒有想要通過作品的影響力去達到私人目的,這是讓我覺得很敬佩的地方。
评分終於讀完惹!!!!!!頭禿
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