The Sixth Extinction

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.

出版者:Picador

作者:Elizabeth Kolbert

页数:336

出版时间:2015-1-6

价格:USD 17.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781250062185

图书标签:自然生物美国英文原版纪实科普科学和心理学社会学

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.

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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...  

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