Read an NY Times Review of the New Book, "The Sixth Extinction"
(The February 21 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/the-sixth-extinction-by-elizabeth-kolbert.html
Without a Trace
‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert
Review by By AL GORE FEB. 10, 2014
Over the past decade, Elizabeth Kolbert has established herself as one of
our very best science writers. She has developed a distinctive and eloquent
voice of conscience on issues arising from the extraordinary assault on the
ecosphere, and those who have enjoyed her previous works like “Field
Notes From a Catastrophe” will not be disappointed by her powerful new
book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.”
Kolbert, a staff writer at The New Yorker, reports from the front lines
of the violent collision between civilization and our planet’s ecosystem: the
Andes, the Amazon rain forest, the Great Barrier Reef — and her backyard.
In lucid prose, she examines the role of man-made climate change in
causing what biologists call the sixth mass extinction — the current spasm
of plant and animal loss that threatens to eliminate 20 to 50 percent of all
living species on earth within this century.
Extinction is a relatively new idea in the scientific community. Well
into the 18th century, people found it impossible to accept the idea that
species had once lived on earth but had been subsequently lost. Scientists
simply could not envision a planetary force powerful enough to wipe out
forms of life that were common in prior ages.
(Click the link above and read more)
(The February 21 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/the-sixth-extinction-by-elizabeth-kolbert.html
Without a Trace
‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert
Review by By AL GORE FEB. 10, 2014
Over the past decade, Elizabeth Kolbert has established herself as one of
our very best science writers. She has developed a distinctive and eloquent
voice of conscience on issues arising from the extraordinary assault on the
ecosphere, and those who have enjoyed her previous works like “Field
Notes From a Catastrophe” will not be disappointed by her powerful new
book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.”
Kolbert, a staff writer at The New Yorker, reports from the front lines
of the violent collision between civilization and our planet’s ecosystem: the
Andes, the Amazon rain forest, the Great Barrier Reef — and her backyard.
In lucid prose, she examines the role of man-made climate change in
causing what biologists call the sixth mass extinction — the current spasm
of plant and animal loss that threatens to eliminate 20 to 50 percent of all
living species on earth within this century.
Extinction is a relatively new idea in the scientific community. Well
into the 18th century, people found it impossible to accept the idea that
species had once lived on earth but had been subsequently lost. Scientists
simply could not envision a planetary force powerful enough to wipe out
forms of life that were common in prior ages.
(Click the link above and read more)
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