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DESCRIPTION:Over the last half a billion years, there have been five major mass 
 extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically 
 contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, 
 predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped 
 out the dinosaurs. And this time around, the cataclysm is us. With her 
 uniquely engaging prose, New Yorker staff writer and author of Field Notes 
 From A Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert offers a startling look at the mass 
 extinction currently unfolding before our eyes in THE SIXTH 
 EXTINCTION.\n\n"The sixth mass extinction is the biggest story on Earth, 
 period, and Elizabeth Kolbert tells it with imagination, rigor, deep 
 reporting, and a capacious curiosity about all the wondrous creatures and 
 ecosystems that exist, or have existed, on our planet. The result is an 
 important book full of love and loss." -- David Quammen, author of The Song 
 of the Dodo and Spillover\n\nBlending intellectual and natural history with 
 field reporting, Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half 
 a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists 
 who study ancient oceans, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs 
 up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef, and 
 more. Kolbert also introduces us to a dozen fascinating species -- some 
 already gone, others facing extinction -- including the Panamian golden 
 frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these 
 stories, Kolbert provides an eye-opening account of the disappearances 
 occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, 
 from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up 
 through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s 
 most lasting legacy, urging us to rethink the fundamental question of what 
 it means to be human and compelling us to consider the future of life on 
 Earth.\n\nThis evening's program includes a visual presentation. If you 
 read the New Yorker, you're familiar with Kolbert's stunning journalism. 
 Don't miss this opportunity to meet, hear, and talk with this most socially 
 responsible reporter.\n\nBerkeley Arts & Letters at the Hillside Club (2286 
 Cedar Street, Berkeley)\n\nTickets $35 (one seat, one book), $45 (two 
 seats, one book), at Brown Paper Tickets in advance; $20 at the door if 
 space available\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/27/18749858.php
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Kolbert / The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
LOCATION:Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar Street\nBerkeley CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/27/18749858.php
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