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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Kolbert spent years reporting alongside biologists watching species disappear in real time. The book's argument is that we are in the middle of a sixth mass extinction — and it makes that claim through fieldwork, not abstraction. The best entry point into climate science for readers who trust narrative over data.
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Who recommended it 1
Bill Gatesreported
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“Gates reviewed Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer-winning account of the ongoing mass extinction on GatesNotes shortly after publication and called it among the most important books on the environment he had read. He praised its combination of reportage and science and its refusal to soften the findings.”
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