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.
课程作业,写完就贴上来了 他们进攻西洋杉时,吉尔伽美什砍到了森林中的第一棵树,恩基杜清除了直到幼发拉底河河岸的树根。 ——《吉尔伽美什之死》 这本书很早之前就读过了,当时应该是大一,和诸位年轻的朋友一样,一知半解的看下去,增长了不少知识。过了两年,修了古生物学...
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...
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...
评分大巴车在大西北的戈壁滩上飞驰,连续八个小时四周一颗草都看不见。没有漫天的飞沙,天也是那么的蓝,只有风化的石柱和地上析出的点点盐晶在诉说着这片土地的贫瘠。我一直在想,这片土地上物种数量公式cA^z的系数是不是零。 读这本书的绝大部份时间,我在青海甘肃游的大巴车上度...
可以从作品中看到这确实是一位很有实力并且经验丰富的作家,文笔生动,理论也很扎实,并且书后面很清晰列出了各种各样非常厚实的reference list。(生词也很多,读到2/3已经没有耐心查字典了…) 在探讨人类、环境和其他生物的关系时也是非常理性和克制的,不会抨击自己不认同的观点,在探讨的时候就是单纯探讨,没有想要通过作品的影响力去达到私人目的,这是让我觉得很敬佩的地方。
评分叙事风格很赞,有科学家的理智,也有文人墨客的忧思和哀愁
评分叙事风格很赞,有科学家的理智,也有文人墨客的忧思和哀愁
评分Essential reading
评分终于读完惹!!!!!!头秃
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