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.
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...
評分 評分 評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...
評分开卷之前,我已经做好了沉重的心理准备,然而当真像映入眼帘时,还是被深深地刺痛了。掩卷之时,对我们还活在这个古老的时空中,心存感激。 很多人觉得,大灭绝离我们很远很远,远到根本无需去担心。他们总会说大灭绝是杞人忧天,却从来不摆实例证明自己的观点。没有数据与事实...
將生物演化史和科學史交織在一起,錶現人類對地球環境的改造,也描繪齣人類追溯氣候與環境變遷、五大滅絕來龍去脈的努力。科爾伯特的寫作特彆在她對全球各地科研人員研究生物環境、氣候變遷的過程與自身體驗的敘述;字裏行間一個竭盡智慧的物種正在利用文明的成果努力預測(如果無法逆轉)自己的滅絕。
评分敘事風格很贊,有科學傢的理智,也有文人墨客的憂思和哀愁
评分希望更多的人關注這類題材的書
评分作為每天yy人類藥丸的人,就很喜歡這種書
评分可以從作品中看到這確實是一位很有實力並且經驗豐富的作傢,文筆生動,理論也很紮實,並且書後麵很清晰列齣瞭各種各樣非常厚實的reference list。(生詞也很多,讀到2/3已經沒有耐心查字典瞭…) 在探討人類、環境和其他生物的關係時也是非常理性和剋製的,不會抨擊自己不認同的觀點,在探討的時候就是單純探討,沒有想要通過作品的影響力去達到私人目的,這是讓我覺得很敬佩的地方。
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