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Title: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryAuthor: Elizabeth Kolbert
Published: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 336
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Over the last half-billion years, five mass extinctions have occured on Earth and in this, Elizabeth Kolbert explores how we're probably in the midst of a sixth one and this time, humans are likely the cause of it.
Review:
I really enjoyed this book and I feel like I learned a lot from it!
This is written in an accessible way and it's pretty easy to read, even if you have very little knowledge of this topic beforehand. The chapters all focus on a single species, some who have already gone extinct (like dinosaurs) and some who going extinct now and throughout these chapters, we get a pretty solid overview of all the mass extinctions, inlcuding the one going on right now. I think this makes a difficult topic very easy to understand for most people.
Now, I do think there's a little bit of a lull in the middle chapters, where I found my interest waning quite a bit. While I found the overall theme of extinction really fascinating, some of the species she looks into weren't really all that intriguing.
It was an eye-opening read though and I'm really happy I read it, even if it did make me feel quite a bit of anxiety about the state of the Earth (as if I wasn't worried already).
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