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The Sixth Extinction

byElizabeth Kolbert, Marcel Blanc

Who is this book for? Readers interested in environmental science, natural history, and the impact of human activity on the planet.

Topics Mass extinctionsEnvironmental disastersHuman impact on extinctionNatural historyAnthropoceneBiodiversity lossClimate changeConservation effortsSpecies extinctionGlobal ecological crisisSurvivalEnvironmental IssuesHuman Nature
MoodReflective
Female protagonist
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species - including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino - some already gone, others at the point of vanishing. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolbert's book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

Language

en

Published on

15/01/2015

Pages

319

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408851241

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