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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 — 81,910 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future 4.09 avg rating — 13,564 ratings — published 2021 — 46 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 — 4,930 ratings — published 2006 — 33 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 4.12 avg rating — 580 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
	H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z 3.90 avg rating — 446 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
	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) 3.93 avg rating — 158 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) 4.68 avg rating — 25 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
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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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May is non-fiction month, specifically archaeology, anthropology, etc. I recently acquired two books I really want to read. The Sixth Extinction and After the Ice. They're both supposed to be really good, but After the Ice is 500 pages! But don't let that dissuade you. Vote for your choice. If the longer book wins, we can extend into June if we have to. June is SciFi month and we could do a shorter book for that...and May does have five Tuesdays. Okay, so last day to vote is Monday, April 9.

After the Ice

Steven Mithen

3 votes, 75.0%

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

1 vote, 25.0%

4 total votes

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