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“How do we distinguish between traits that are true disabilities and ones that are disabilities mainly because society is not good at adapting for them?”
― The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
― The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
“CURRENTLY, about fifty million square miles of land on the planet are ice-free, and this is the baseline that’s generally used for calculating human impacts. According to a recent study published by the Geological Society of America, people have “directly transformed” more than half of this land—roughly twenty-seven million square miles—mostly by converting it to cropland and pasture, but also by building cities and shopping malls and reservoirs, and by logging and mining and quarrying.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“What Boiga irregularis has done in Guam, he observes, “is precisely what Homo sapiens has done all over the planet: succeeded extravagantly at the expense of other species.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“The typical Kenyan produces 55 times less carbon dioxide than an American, and rural farmers like the Talams produce even less.”
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
― How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
“What I’ve been trying to do is trace an extinction event—call it the Holocene extinction, or the Anthropocene extinction, or, if you prefer the sound of it, the Sixth Extinction—and to place this event in the broader context of life’s history. That history is neither strictly uniformitarian nor catastrophist; rather, it is a hybrid of the two. What this history reveals, in its ups and its downs, is that life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so. There have been very long uneventful stretches and very, very occasionally “revolutions on the surface of the earth.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Rohit’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rohit’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
300 books
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439 books
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230 books
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75 books
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2,337 books
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75 books
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