![]() ![]() If you don’t care about life on earth, what do you care about? It would be hard for me to imagine exactly what that would be. We are unraveling that fabric very, very quickly. The first is this: What we are really talking about here is the fabric of life itself-the beauty and diversity of life on this planet. ![]() I’d say there are two answers to this question. Why should we care about extinction? I get asked that question a lot, and I have to say that at first I was surprised by it. ![]() Kolbert, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, recently spoke with Tricycle contributing editor Sam Mowe about writing on extinction, geological and evolutionary history, and how humans have changed the face of the planet as no other animal has done. Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert’s most recent book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, takes a hard look at the science and intellectual history of extinction as well as the human role in this current mass extinction. ![]()
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