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Originally published Sunday, February 16, 2014
A journalist investigates the planet’s ‘Sixth Extinction’
A review of “Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert’s riveting journalistic inquiry into the radical changes mankind is wreaking on Earth.
By Mary Ann Gwinn
Seattle Times book editor
Author appearance
Elizabeth Kolbert
The author of “The Sixth Extinction” will discuss her book at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave. Tickets are $5 at townhallseattle.org and at the door.
“The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert’s revelatory new book, “The Sixth Extinction,” about the rapid and radical changes man is wreaking on the Earth, is one of those works of explanatory journalism that achieves the highest and best use of the form. After you read it, your view of the world will be fundamentally changed.
Kolbert, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has gone all over the world to walk with, talk with and debrief a cadre of eminent scientists who are tracking humanity’s transformation of our global home. Kolbert builds an effective case that the pace of change is proceeding at a rate that imperils all species, including, eventually, Homo sapiens.
In a lucid and understated style, Kolbert documents the collapse of amphibian populations and of coral reefs. She writes about the mass die-off of millions of bats in the Northeast, most likely done in by a fungus transported around the world by globalization’s component parts, travel and trade.
She walks in the Peruvian rain forest with researchers tracing the effect of global warming, as they track plants that may move upslope at rates of up to 100 feet a year in search of a higher, cooler climate zone.
She tells stories of imminent extinction, such as Suci, the Sumatran rhino in the Cincinnati Zoo who can’t ovulate unless she senses there is an eligible male around. In Suci’s case, “the nearest eligible male is 10,000 miles away.”
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Originally published Sunday, February 16, 2014
A journalist investigates the planet’s ‘Sixth Extinction’
A review of “Sixth Extinction,” Elizabeth Kolbert’s riveting journalistic inquiry into the radical changes mankind is wreaking on Earth.
By Mary Ann Gwinn
Seattle Times book editor
Author appearance
Elizabeth Kolbert
The author of “The Sixth Extinction” will discuss her book at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave. Tickets are $5 at townhallseattle.org and at the door.
“The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert’s revelatory new book, “The Sixth Extinction,” about the rapid and radical changes man is wreaking on the Earth, is one of those works of explanatory journalism that achieves the highest and best use of the form. After you read it, your view of the world will be fundamentally changed.
Kolbert, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has gone all over the world to walk with, talk with and debrief a cadre of eminent scientists who are tracking humanity’s transformation of our global home. Kolbert builds an effective case that the pace of change is proceeding at a rate that imperils all species, including, eventually, Homo sapiens.
In a lucid and understated style, Kolbert documents the collapse of amphibian populations and of coral reefs. She writes about the mass die-off of millions of bats in the Northeast, most likely done in by a fungus transported around the world by globalization’s component parts, travel and trade.
She walks in the Peruvian rain forest with researchers tracing the effect of global warming, as they track plants that may move upslope at rates of up to 100 feet a year in search of a higher, cooler climate zone.
She tells stories of imminent extinction, such as Suci, the Sumatran rhino in the Cincinnati Zoo who can’t ovulate unless she senses there is an eligible male around. In Suci’s case, “the nearest eligible male is 10,000 miles away.”
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