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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.
- 科普
- 英文原版
- 古生物
- Environmental
- 历史
- 自然科学
- 生物
- Biology
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.
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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...
评分伊丽莎白·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...
评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...
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I don't like the choice of words in this book yet this book is recommend by Bill Gates and takes approximately three hours to read. So why not?
评分人无法征服自然，因为人属于自然。。就像桃谷六仙打趣说的，令狐冲是我们兄弟，令狐冲就是桃谷六仙，桃谷六仙就是令狐冲，这世上哪有自己打败自己的是呢。。
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I don't like the choice of words in this book yet this book is recommend by Bill Gates and takes approximately three hours to read. So why not?
评分好喜欢这本。有些还没有被认识到，就已经消失。人类中心，人类世。
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