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Elizabeth kolbert has a wonderful way of painting a picture and making technical topics approachable to a layperson. Kolbert discusses the zebra mussel in this regard. In it reside some 500 species of cichlid fish.
The book is a must read. The author ties to leave us with a glimmer of hope. Well written and disturbing book.
Slow at points; however, it picks up intermittently with fascinating bits of information. Book is slightly more dense, containing many scientific terms.
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Theories of the "merciless indian savages" that wiped out millions of years of life are wrong, says the journalist.
Morano has no plan other than his gushing right-wing agenda to disavow anything scientific that may have some validity. Morano is at best a high-school debater, and a poor one at that. If this path is wrong and we take it at full value without curbing... Read More
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Quality
Educational not too heavy in technical jargon
A book that might bring you to tears while giving the hope that we still have time to change to slow down and even stop the car... Read More
The carbon was emitted over the course of several centuries from huge siberian volcanos
In 100000000 years all that is left of us is a thin layer of toxic chemicals and radioactive isotope products in the strata of ... Read More
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It arrived on time and in great condition i was very pleased thank you
Like in madagascar some two thousand years ago when humans first got to the island
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- This product had a total of 10,006 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 24 2024.
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Title might suggest that it’s a disaster story or armageddon or conspiracy theories
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Maybe next time around the beings who live here will be kinder and more aware that “we” are not the only living beings here and perhaps then we will all have a better chance of survival
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Its mainly journalistic in character however there are some good references at the end if you want to dig further
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Something as seemingly mundane as trees on a mountain in peru or mollusk fossils in a creek in new jersey are strikingly not when examined by elizabeth kolbert within these pages
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What is to be done is not nearly as clear as some people might suggest and i appreciate the author’s avoidance talking point prescriptions and epistemic humility in approaching the vastness of the topic of ecosystem collapse and the fast disappearance of species
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The neanderthals might have an opinion on that
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I can’t think that’s accidental
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For while being human may allow us to transcend the earthly and the material via intellection it never allows us to remove ourselves from whence we come and from which we are sustained
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