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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.
- 科普
- 英文原版
- 古生物
- Environmental
- 历史
- 自然科学
- 生物
- Biology
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.
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大灭绝时代丨“人类正忙着，锯断自己栖息的那根树枝” 原创： 南云禾Dagny 云禾的彼得潘 前面的话： 灭绝并不是既古老又遥远的事情，我们正在经历它，或者说，造成它~ 【图片源自《大灭绝时代》插图】 虽然我关于要学游泳的flag立了五年且每年都倒，但我依旧对于“看海”有着深...
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...
评分大巴车在大西北的戈壁滩上飞驰，连续八个小时四周一颗草都看不见。没有漫天的飞沙，天也是那么的蓝，只有风化的石柱和地上析出的点点盐晶在诉说着这片土地的贫瘠。我一直在想，这片土地上物种数量公式cA^z的系数是不是零。 读这本书的绝大部份时间，我在青海甘肃游的大巴车上度...
评分一个物种接着一个物种地灭绝，一个物种又一个物种地减少，谁会成为下一个被灭绝者呢？当他们离开时，请记住它们存在过。 作者伊丽莎白•科尔伯特，美国记者，曾著有《灾异手记》。《大灭绝时代》获得2015年第99届普利策新闻奖“虚构”类获奖作品。在书中，可以看到记者伊丽...
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太好看了！
评分人无法征服自然，因为人属于自然。。就像桃谷六仙打趣说的，令狐冲是我们兄弟，令狐冲就是桃谷六仙，桃谷六仙就是令狐冲，这世上哪有自己打败自己的是呢。。
评分Although it is not easy to read because of the specialised terms, I can actually say that this book is an eye-opener, and it did broaden my horizon.
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.
评分主题很吸引人，但讲起来很那做到平易近人，因为牵涉到太多专业背景知识。作者就像讲故事一样娓娓道来，读起来让人欲罢不能。非常好的一本科普读物。对于大灭绝，人总是站在统治者的位置上觉得这不能发生在自己身上，可是就像《三体》里说的，“死亡才是永恒的”。这个过程也许就是不可避免的，正所谓天道轮回。你都说不清如今这个状态究竟是这个必然过程中的一种表现方式还是人的自掘坟墓。
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