THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: An Unnatural History
《第六次滅絕:非自然史》(The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History)
By Elizabeth Kolbert
伊麗莎白·科爾伯特(Elizabeth Kolbert)著
Henry Holt & Company, $28.
亨利·霍爾特與公司出版社(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.
這是科爾伯特的第三本書,她站在人類文明與這個星球生態環境激烈沖突的最前沿寫作——從大堡礁到她家后院。她走訪了這個世界最偏遠的若干角落,檢視人為氣候變化如何在本世紀內威脅到20%至50%的現存物種的生存。這本環保書極為嚴謹,細節豐富,而又如同驚悚小說般引人入勝。