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.
发表于2024-05-06
The Sixth Extinction 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
读完之后觉得作者行文很乱,引用的文献事例太多,做了哥思维导图才发现,其实非常有条理,为自己的草率惭愧…… 其实第一章算是总述或是绪论,通过巴拿马金蛙的灭绝引出后面要讲的事情,第二到第四章开始讲述灭绝概念的出现、发展以及猜想,五到十一章正式讲述进入人类世之后...
评分近几个星期以来,一篇发表在《自然》杂志上的地质学论文在英国媒体上引起颇多讨论,两位英国科学家西蒙•路易斯(Simon Lewis)和马克•马斯林(Mark Maslin)用各种数据分析了一个以人类为主宰的地质年代:“人类世”(anthropocene)的起点问题,他们的结论是1610年最符合条件...
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...
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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.
太好看了!
评分太好看了!
评分好的非虚构类写作真的是透明的,让人看不到作者的技巧和经营,让我们专心的想:糟糕,地球要灭亡了。。。
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。
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.
The Sixth Extinction 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书