- The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History
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- 저자 : by Elizabeth Kolbert
- 출판사 : Picador USA
- 발행연도 : 2015
- ISBN : 9781250062185
- 자료실 : [일원] 자료실
- 청구기호 : 476.7-K81s
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# 인류의 미래
# 환경 보호
# 진화
지구 역사상 여섯 번째 대멸종, 그 중심에 있는 ‘인류세’를 고발하는 책입니다. 수많은 생물 종이 영원히 사라지고 있는 대멸종의 현장에 대한 생생한 기록을 목도하게 됩니다. 저자 엘리자베스 콜버트는 수많은 생명체가 사라지는 과정을 추적한 끝에, 늘 마주하게 되는 동일한 범인은 바로 ‘일개의 나약한 종’, 즉 인간이라고 말하며 인류의 책임을 준엄하게 묻습니다.
The 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the Sixth Extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.
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 who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. In the ten years since the book was originally published, evidence of the Sixth Extinction has continued to mount, making its message more urgent than ever.
The Sixth Extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
<2026년 6~7월 북큐레이션>
기후/환경 도서와 함께, 지구를 지키는 방법에 대해 생각해보아요!
# 인류의 미래
# 환경 보호
# 진화
지구 역사상 여섯 번째 대멸종, 그 중심에 있는 ‘인류세’를 고발하는 책입니다. 수많은 생물 종이 영원히 사라지고 있는 대멸종의 현장에 대한 생생한 기록을 목도하게 됩니다. 저자 엘리자베스 콜버트는 수많은 생명체가 사라지는 과정을 추적한 끝에, 늘 마주하게 되는 동일한 범인은 바로 ‘일개의 나약한 종’, 즉 인간이라고 말하며 인류의 책임을 준엄하게 묻습니다.
The 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the Sixth Extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.
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 who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. In the ten years since the book was originally published, evidence of the Sixth Extinction has continued to mount, making its message more urgent than ever.
The Sixth Extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.