The release date for the English version of 'The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History' by
Elizabeth Kolbert is Feb 2014. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
There have been five big extinctions in the past 500 million years, during which the variety of life on Earth abruptly and drastically decreased. Global scientists are keeping an eye on the sixth extinction, which is thought to be the most catastrophic since the impact of an asteroid that exterminated the dinosaurs. We are the disaster this time.
The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert explains why and how humans have changed life on Earth in a manner that no other species has, using candid, humorous, and highly knowledgeable writing. Kolbert gives a compelling and thorough overview of the disappearances taking place right in front of our eyes by fusing research from six different disciplines, descriptions of the intriguing species that have previously gone extinct, and the background of extinction as a concept. She demonstrates how the sixth extinction is probably going to be humanity's greatest enduring legacy, which forces us to reconsider the central query of what it means to be human.