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Elizabeth Kolbert

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Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

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	The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 80,198 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future 4.10 avg rating — 13,291 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change 4.05 avg rating — 4,856 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z 3.91 avg rating — 422 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World 4.17 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 3.95 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arctic: an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (The ends of the earth, #1) by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Francis Spufford (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers on Earth: New Visions for Our Planet by Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Write the World (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Des poissons dans le désert 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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“A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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“To argue that the current extinction event could be averted if people just cared more and were willing to make more sacrifices is not wrong, exactly; still, it misses the point. It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world. This capacity predates modernity,”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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What nonfiction book relating to the environment would you like to read and discuss in September?

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres

3 votes, 42.9%

The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey

2 votes, 28.6%

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

1 vote, 14.3%

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

1 vote, 14.3%

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