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.
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...
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...
终于读完惹!!!!!!头秃
评分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。
评分写的不错,不是简单的treehugger的宣传,很多确凿的科学数据,却用散文一样的语言来讲解,于是像小说一样引人入胜。
评分终于读完惹!!!!!!头秃
评分Frogs, auks, bats, rhinos, reefs, Neanderthals. Artisan is how I find aptest to describe the delicacy of nature hand. And yet, like tourists' cursory glance at exhibits, no quintessence of nature vitality has ever reached we sightseers' eye.
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