The Sixth Extinction
Witness the unfolding environmental catastrophe through Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism. Elizabeth Kolbert reveals how human activity is driving the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history and what it means for our future.
What You'll Master
Understand the five previous mass extinctions and what makes the sixth different
Learn how asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions caused past extinctions, and why human activity creates an unprecedented threat to biodiversity.
Explore how climate change, habitat destruction, and pollution accelerate extinction
Discover the multiple ways human civilization disrupts ecosystems through warming temperatures, deforestation, ocean acidification, and toxic chemicals.
Witness the disappearance of species from coral reefs to rainforests
Follow Kolbert's field research documenting extinction in real-time, from dying coral reefs to vanishing amphibians and disappearing forests.
Grasp the interconnectedness of ecosystems and food webs
Understand how the loss of one species creates cascading effects that destabilize entire ecosystems and threaten human survival.
Confront the moral and practical implications of human-caused extinction
Examine what our role in the sixth extinction means for ethics, conservation efforts, and the future habitability of planet Earth.
Your Environmental Awareness Journey
1. Understand Earth's History of Mass Extinctions
Explore the five previous extinction events and learn how the current extinction differs in cause, speed, and scope from anything in Earth's history.
2. Witness the Sixth Extinction in Progress
Follow scientific fieldwork documenting species loss happening now across different ecosystems and understand the human activities driving these changes.
3. Confront the Implications for Human Civilization
Examine what widespread extinction means for ecosystem stability, human survival, and our moral responsibility to other species on Earth.
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