THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: An Unnatural History
《第六次灭绝:非自然史》(The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History)
By Elizabeth Kolbert
伊丽莎白·科尔伯特(Elizabeth Kolbert)著
Henry Holt & Company, $28.
亨利·霍尔特与公司出版社(Henry Holt & Company),28美元
Kolbert reports from the front lines of the violent collision between civilization and our planet’s ecosystem — from the Great Barrier Reef to her own backyard — in this, her third, book. Traveling to some of the world’s remotest corners, she examines how man-made climate change threatens to eliminate 20 to 50 percent of all living species on earth within this century. This is environmental writing at its most rigorous and richly detailed — and as riveting as any thriller.
这是科尔伯特的第三本书,她站在人类文明与这个星球生态环境激烈冲突的最前沿写作——从大堡礁到她家后院。她走访了这个世界最偏远的若干角落,检视人为气候变化如何在本世纪内威胁到20%至50%的现存物种的生存。这本环保书极为严谨,细节丰富,而又如同惊悚小说般引人入胜。