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.
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...
评分一个物种接着一个物种地灭绝,一个物种又一个物种地减少,谁会成为下一个被灭绝者呢?当他们离开时,请记住它们存在过。 作者伊丽莎白•科尔伯特,美国记者,曾著有《灾异手记》。《大灭绝时代》获得2015年第99届普利策新闻奖“虚构”类获奖作品。在书中,可以看到记者伊丽...
评分 评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...
听有声书听完的,值得再细读一遍。
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.
评分文风干净利落,适量幽默,不抖机灵,hin不错的nonfiction
评分201409,和The Box一样都是记者出身的作家积累了大量资料后写的纪实类的书。大量生物学生词,不停查字典。五分之一的书是参考资料。
评分读了一个多月终于读完了。虽然如果有时间肯定是一气呵成。欲罢不能,文笔很好。看了一下,翻译版本也不错的。本来是当历史书看的,结果竟是故事书。
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