Bookfoolery The Sixth Extinction By Elizabeth Kolbert Mass extinction will have far reaching, potentially cataclysmic consequences for humankind. Reading books about climate change can also be a great way to inspire action.
The Sixth Extinction La Progressive Nov. 30, 2009 12 am pt. there is a holocaust happening. right now. and it’s not confined to one nation or even one region. it is a global crisis. species are going extinct en masse. every 20. 576.8 4. lc class. qe721.2.e97 k65 2014. the sixth extinction: an unnatural history is a 2014 non fiction book written by elizabeth kolbert and published by henry holt and company. the book argues that the earth is in the midst of a modern, man made, sixth extinction. in the book, kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares. If one considers a mass extinction event as a short period when at least 75% of species are lost (barnosky et al., 2011), the current ongoing extinction crisis, whether labelled the ‘sixth mass extinction’ or not, has not yet occurred; it is “a potential event that may occur in the future” (macleod, 2014, p. 2). but the fact that it has. 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.
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