She spoke to Terry last year when "The Sixth Extinction" was published in hardback.Įlizabeth Kolbert, welcome to FRESH AIR. Climate change was the subject of Kolbert's previous book "Field Notes From A Catastrophe." Her research for the new book took her around the world, to oceans, rain forests and mountains, as well as a place nearly in her backyard where scientists are studying disappearing plants and animals. The book begins with a history of the big five extinctions of the past and goes on to explain how human behavior is creating this sixth, including our use of fossil fuels which has led to climate change. Our guest is Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the book "The Sixth Extinction." It's a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and it's now out in paperback. Or as one scientist put it, this time, we're the asteroid.
But this time around, human activity is responsible. Scientists now think an asteroid was responsible for that mass extinction.
The fifth extinction was the one that killed off the dinosaurs. We're living in an epic many scientists describe as the sixth extinction. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who is off this week.
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