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.
發表於2024-05-17
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課程作業,寫完就貼上來瞭 他們進攻西洋杉時,吉爾伽美什砍到瞭森林中的第一棵樹,恩基杜清除瞭直到幼發拉底河河岸的樹根。 ——《吉爾伽美什之死》 這本書很早之前就讀過瞭,當時應該是大一,和諸位年輕的朋友一樣,一知半解的看下去,增長瞭不少知識。過瞭兩年,修瞭古生物學...
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Good analysis. Conclusion not necessarily right.
評分3星半,和預期的很不一樣,要重讀一下。
評分文筆很好,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。
評分Good analysis. Conclusion not necessarily right.
評分人無法徵服自然,因為人屬於自然。。就像桃榖六仙打趣說的,令狐衝是我們兄弟,令狐衝就是桃榖六仙,桃榖六仙就是令狐衝,這世上哪有自己打敗自己的是呢。。
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