The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert ‘On the opening page of her investigation into the future of our planet, Kolbert quotes the great biologist EO Wilson: “If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.” This warning note sets the mood for the 13 chapters that follow, an urgent contemporary report on “the sixth extinction.”’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction


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Add to Calendar Europe/Paris The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert ‘On the opening page of her investigation into the future of our planet, Kolbert quotes the great biologist EO Wilson: “If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.” This warning note sets the mood for the 13 chapters that follow, an urgent contemporary report on “the sixth extinction.”’ Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction

The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert ‘On the opening page of her investigation into the future of our planet, Kolbert quotes the great biologist EO Wilson: “If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.” This warning note sets the mood for the 13 chapters that follow, an urgent contemporary report on “the sixth extinction.”’
Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction
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The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert ‘On the opening page of her investigation into the future of our planet, Kolbert quotes the great biologist EO Wilson: “If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.” This warning note sets the mood for the 13 chapters that follow, an urgent contemporary report on “the sixth extinction.”’
Robert McCrum, Guardian extract: 100 Best Nonfiction
#TheSixthExtinction #Guardian #ElizabethKolbert #libreria #libtriptych #robertmccrum

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