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The Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Pulitzer winner on the extinction humans are causing: frogs, coral, rhinos, the great auk, ocean acidification. Reported, not preached.
Read it if…
you want the clearest book on biodiversity loss.
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Skip it if…
you want hope first.
Try instead: Under a White Sky →
Three things you will actually use
- We are the asteroid.
- Loss is happening now.
- Witness it.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the Panamanian golden frog.
Our verdict
Kolbert's extinction.
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