The Sixth Extinction Audiobook (Free)

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From the writer of Field Records from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important function about the continuing future of the globe, mixing intellectual and natural background and field reporting into a compelling accounts from the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

During the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Researchers around the world are monitoring the 6th about The 6th Extinction extinction, forecasted to become the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that destroyed the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.

The Sixth Extinction pulls on the task of scores of researchers in two twelve disciplines-geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree collection since it climbs up the Andes, and sea biologists who dive off the fantastic Hurdle Reef. Elizabeth Kolbert, two-time champion from the Country wide Magazine Award and New Yorker writer, accompanies many of these researchers into the field, and introduces you to a dozen species-some already eliminated, others facing extinction-that are being affected by the sixth extinction.

Through these stories, Kolbert provides a shifting account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in groundbreaking Paris up through present. The 6th extinction may very well be mankind’s most enduring legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental query of what it means to be individual.