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LWV Book Club via ZOOM

When:
Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM
Where:
ZOOM meeting
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Marilyn T Brown
Category:
Book Club
Registration is required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
No Fee

 

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

By Elizabeth Kolbert


A compelling examination of the justification for referring to our current ecological situation as a major “extinction”, commensurate in magnitude with the first five naturally occurring events over the last half-billion years. Her argument comes out of her findings that “one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all freshwater mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed towards oblivion.”

Per a NYTimes review, the reader will not be able to escape the conclusion that we are in the first extinction not caused by an inanimate object, such as an asteroid or a geophysical force, but by Homo sapiens. Ms. Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book, 269 pages in length, was published in 2014.