The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History (Hardcover)

from Schmerguls

This book won the Pulitzer prize for nofiction in 2015 andis the 34th such winner I have read. 55 books have won that prize, so there are a lot of such winners I have not read. This is by a journalist who went to many places where things indicated a crisis is looming, and she reports on the thing...

from dchaikin

30. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert reader: Anne Twomey published: 2014 format: digital audiobook (9:59) acquired: from audible, on May 22 read: May 23 - Jun 3 rating: 4 stars Doesn't the title say it all? It's quite a topic - what we are doing to the world, and wh...

from steve02476

Great but sad book about extinctions and mass extinctions. Interesting history about how biologists and paleontologists etc first began to understand the concept of extinct species, mixed with information about a few of the many species facing extinction right now or that have disappeared in the ...

from JBD1

An extremely good, if profoundly disturbing, popular account of the current ongoing mass extinction being caused, without any shadow of a doubt, by the actions and inactions of human beings. Kolbert explores the history of biological extinctions on earth and how those were seen and explained by C...

from arubabookwoman

This Pulitzer Prize winner reports on a mass extinction that is ongoing before our very eyes. Over the past 500 million years there have been five mass extinctions, when diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Kolbert's thesis is there's a sixth extinction going on now. H...