The Sixth Extinction
An Unnatural History
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The Sixth Extinction
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Anne Twomey
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling 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.
The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines–geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, and marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. Elizabeth Kolbert, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer, accompanies many of these researchers into the field, and introduces you to a dozen species–some already gone, others facing extinction–that are being affected by the sixth extinction.
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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A good book
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Very interesting book
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Welchen drei Worte würden für Sie The Sixth Extinction treffend charakterisieren?
Evolution, Extinction and the Role of Homo Sapiens.Wie hat Ihnen Anne Twomey als Sprecher gefallen? Warum?
Just perfect speaker, good voice, right emotional context. As usual with native English speakers, the French, Italian and German pronunciation of names and places is a little weak.Hat dieses Hörbuch Sie emotional stark bewegt? Mussten Sie laut z.B. lachen, weinen, zweifeln, etc.?
Yes, this book will make you reflect on yourself and humantiy!Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?
Limmited green agenda, lots of facts, no blaming. As neutral as can be on a subject as this...Extincion and us - the connection.
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