↳ FEEL THE FISSURE
The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Five extinctions before us. We are the sixth. She documents it.
For you if
you want to understand the biodiversity crisis as something happening to specific creatures in specific places rather than an abstraction called extinction
⚡ Choose Your Route ⚡
Not sold directly on this site. Support indie bookstores with a new copy, or go sustainable with a used one.
Supports independent bookstores
— or —
Secondhand & sustainable
$19.99 MSRP
· Paperback
· Reference price shown. Other editions may be available.
The planet has experienced five mass extinction events in its history — asteroid strikes, volcanic winters, catastrophic climate shifts. Kolbert spent years traveling with scientists to document the sixth, which is happening now and is caused entirely by one species. She visits a Panama research station watching amphibians vanish, a reef bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef, a cave in upstate New York where bats are dying by the millions, a site in the Peruvian Amazon where species are migrating uphill to escape heat. Each chapter is a different species, a different front in the same war. Pulitzer Prize winner. The most readable and most devastating account of what we are currently doing to the living world — not in the future but right now, species by species.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Themes
- Witness
