Thursday, September 18, 2014

The Sixth Extinction

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014

Read in September 2014

A very frank, informative and engaging discussion of how humans have altered life on the planet in a negative way that is leading toward a mass extinction. The author discusses the previous five mass extinctions throughout the history of the Earth caused by shifts in the environmental situation and talks about the coming sixth extinction brought about by the industrial revolution.

The author doesn't make judgements but rather presents the information and it is up to the reader to do something about it or not.

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