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3星半,和预期的很不一样,要重读一下。
评分不管是绝望的还是留有希望的那些故事,其实内容大部分都知道。况且当前很多现实更加可怕。作为科普,绝对推荐。想起作者去年来学校演讲,说到在Anthropocene,all options are bad,what differs is how worse.
评分主题很吸引人,但讲起来很那做到平易近人,因为牵涉到太多专业背景知识。作者就像讲故事一样娓娓道来,读起来让人欲罢不能。非常好的一本科普读物。对于大灭绝,人总是站在统治者的位置上觉得这不能发生在自己身上,可是就像《三体》里说的,“死亡才是永恒的”。这个过程也许就是不可避免的,正所谓天道轮回。你都说不清如今这个状态究竟是这个必然过程中的一种表现方式还是人的自掘坟墓。
评分Although it is not easy to read because of the specialised terms, I can actually say that this book is an eye-opener, and it did broaden my horizon.
评分Although it is not easy to read because of the specialised terms, I can actually say that this book is an eye-opener, and it did broaden my horizon.
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 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.
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...
评分关于物种灭绝和环境保护的书籍和影视比比皆是,但«大灭绝时代»无疑是其中最佳的作品之一。它集科学性、趣味性、警示性于一体,不仅仅关注于浅显的环境保护理念,而是从物种灭绝概念的起源出发,以作者亲身经历的访问为导向,涉及全球变暖、海洋酸化、物种入侵、过度捕杀...
评分关于物种灭绝和环境保护的书籍和影视比比皆是,但«大灭绝时代»无疑是其中最佳的作品之一。它集科学性、趣味性、警示性于一体,不仅仅关注于浅显的环境保护理念,而是从物种灭绝概念的起源出发,以作者亲身经历的访问为导向,涉及全球变暖、海洋酸化、物种入侵、过度捕杀...
评分开卷之前,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...
评分试想一下,寂静的春天没有那么早到来,而是现在才有人提出这样的一个名词;试想一下,如果没有罗马俱乐部,没有绿党,没有增长的极限的存在;试想一下,时间还停留在印第安人和欧洲人之间博弈着到底谁才是真正的土地领主的年代。试想一下,这一切延续到了现在,我们的生态系统...
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