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The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert: Key Takeaways, Analysis, & Review , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 25min
Preview: The Sixth Extinction is a book by award-winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. In this book, the author demonstrates that species are dying out at a rate comparable to the previous mass extinctions, and if the trend of global warming, deforestation, and pollution continues in its present course, the numbers of extinct species will meet or exceed that rate of destruction. This event will include the extinction of humanity. What this means is that the current loss of life today will soon justify the term "The Sixth Extinction", a mass extinction like the one that destroyed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. When humans originated about 100,000 years ago, they began to hunt some species into extinction. Their ability to outcompete other early hominids for food led to the extinction of those species, including Neanderthals. The extinction of species picked up steam when humans began transforming great swaths of forest and plains into farmland about 10,000 years ago.... Please note: this audiobook includes key takeaways and an analysis of the book - not the original book. Inside this Instaread of The Sixth Extinction: Overview of the book Important people Key takeaways Analysis of key takeaways About the author: With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044613/bk_acx0_044613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert: Summary, Review & Analysis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
It's hard to believe that the sum total of all human civilization will one day be compressed into a rock layer the width of a piece of paper, but in The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert gives the listener an expansive overview of how Mother Earth is getting ready to clean house - again. This time, it's not just the mastodon bones being thrown out with the trash. An exploration of how humans are heading for mass extinction largely due to their own follies, The Sixth Extinction compresses anecdotes, evidence, and scientific characters into a sometimes-humorous tome of an otherwise serious topic. This summary of The Sixth Extinction drills deep down into the book, which travels to exotic locations around the world to illustrate case studies of an endangered planet (think of it as a "1000 places to see before the world dies"). In chapter synopses, speculate on different scenarios that could lead to an earth-altering cataclysm. Visit a frozen zoo, where the cells of a 1,000 species have been served a liquid nitrogen cocktail. Find hope as you learn how "the most important ecological experiment ever done" is currently underway in the Amazon rainforest. In addition to an author biography, this summary of The Sixth Extinction includes a "putting it together" section: a helping hand for understanding Kolbert's big ideas. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lynn. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017076/bk_acx0_017076_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
A major audiobook about the future of the world, blending 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. 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. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anne Twomey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006545/bk_sans_006545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Under a White Sky
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? From her coverage in The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of our most important writers on the environment. Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world's forests and rivers--on the very topography of the globe. In her trademark persuasive and darkly comic prose, Kolbert introduces myriad innovations that offer ways to avert disaster--or may produce new disasters, ones that haven't been and perhaps cannot be anticipated. We encounter the scientists attempting to save the Devils Hole pupfish, the rarest fish species in the world, who occupy a single pool in a limestone cavern in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; resilient "super coral" created via assisted evolution to survive a hotter globe; and researchers who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to scatter sunlight back to space, changing the sky from blue to white. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. Paradoxically, the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.- Shop: buecher
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Wir Klimawandler
Aus dem biblischen Auftrag, sich die Erde untertan zu machen, ist düstere Realität geworden: Wir befinden uns mitten in einem Artensterben gigantischen Ausmaßes. Das Klima verändert sich, weil wir das Klima verändern. So tiefgreifend beeinflusst unser Handeln den Planeten, dass Wissenschaftler vom Erdzeitalter des Menschen sprechen, dem Anthropozän. In ihrem neuen Buch gewährt uns Elizabeth Kolbert einen Blick auf die Natur der Zukunft. Die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin erzählt von Ingenieuren, die mit aberwitzigen Folgen für das Ökosystem den Verlauf von Flüssen ändern oder ganze Küstenstreifen vor dem ansteigenden Meerwasser schützen. Sie trifft Biologen, die den Teufelskärpfling, den wohl seltensten Fisch der Erde, retten wollen, und sie berichtet von den kühnen Plänen, CO2 aus der Luft zu saugen oder winzig kleine Diamanten in der Stratosphäre zu verteilen. Temporeich schildert Kolbert das Dilemma, vor dem wir stehen: Unsere Eingriffe in die Umwelt haben uns an einen Punkt geführt, an dem diese Versuche die letzte Hoffnung im Kampf gegen die globale Erderwärmung sind. Vielleicht sind sie aber auch der letzte Schritt auf dem Weg in die Klimakatastrophe.- Shop: buecher
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA AND BILL GATES • SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews • "Beautifully and insistently, Kolbert shows us that it is time to think radically about the ways we manage the environment."-Helen Macdonald, The New York Times With a new afterword by the author That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world's rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave; engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland; Australian researchers who are trying to develop a "super coral" that can survive on a hotter globe; and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. Now she examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, Under a White Sky is an utterly original examination of the challenges we face.- Shop: buecher
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The Sixth Extinction
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half-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 prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.- Shop: buecher
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Summary of The Sixth Extinction
Summary of The Sixth Extinction ab 4.49 € als epub eBook: by Elizabeth Kolbert | Includes Analysis. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Natur & Umwelt,- Shop: hugendubel
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