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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
- 曆史
- 自然科學
- 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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評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...
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聽有聲書聽完的，值得再細讀一遍。
评分文筆很好，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。
评分不管是絕望的還是留有希望的那些故事，其實內容大部分都知道。況且當前很多現實更加可怕。作為科普，絕對推薦。想起作者去年來學校演講，說到在Anthropocene，all options are bad，what differs is how worse.
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评分Good analysis. Conclusion not necessarily right.
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