Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History [2015] paperback ZMILI and the nature of community

and the nature of community

The Ireland that eventually emerged bore little relation to the brave new world they had conjured up in student societies

especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force

Set against the backdrop of the looming Himalayas and drenching monsoons

Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History [2015] paperback ZMILI and the nature of communityOver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species