《纽约客》记者伊丽莎白•科尔伯特一一亲历全球生态现场，穿插结合三百年科学认知与最新锐生态观点，为读者画出了今天世界的轮廓：我们的确生活在一个非同凡响的时代，第六次物种大灭绝已经开始。
故事有十三个。前几个故事所涉及的美洲乳齿象、大海雀还有菊石已经灭绝了，这一部分主要介绍远古的大灭绝及其曲折的发现过程。第二部分陈列当下的事实，在日益支离破碎的亚马孙雨林中，在迅速变暖的安第斯山坡面，在大堡礁的外围海域里。
巨变的范围是如此广大，只要在正确的指引之下，随便去哪里都能发现灭绝的现象。最后还有一个故事所讲述的灭绝差不多算是发生在我家后院——说不定，也同时发生在你家。随着故事的推进，读者也能像科学家一样渐渐意识到：当前发生的这一轮大灭绝，源头就在人类自己身上。
A major audiobook about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef.
She introduces us to a dozen 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 a moving 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; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
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