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Apr 19, 2021 12:35 PM EDT Elizabeth Kolbert staff writer for the New Yorker and also the writer of the book "The Sixth Extinction," which won the Pulitzer Prize, gave a warning that the Earth is "very close to another mass extinction" in large part because of climate change. Kolbert was born in 1961. She is an American journalist, author, and she usually visits Williams college. Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx, New York; her family then moved to Larchmont, New York, where she stayed until 1979. (Photo : Getty Images) Major Mass Extinctions  In the last 500 million years there ...

  Predicting the future has been a pass-time for offals of birds readers, Christians, Nostradamuses, “intelligence agencies” and super-computers. Every time a new prediction is made with more “precision”, someone goes on the barricade and shouts that the sea level rise rise predicted for 2100 won’t be as bad, because new calculations show the previous estimate to be 25 per cent over the new recalibrated predictions. Hurrah!, claims an article in RT, “F*ck Climate Crisis” is the picture used to demonstrate how wrong “we’ve been so far”…   So, instead of drowning in 2100...

Daily Times Under a White Sky — marching towards extinction * Kolbert's writing, in brief, is about the Anthropocene, the geological epoch during which humans have had an unprecedented influence on the planet, its climate and its denizens April 4, 2021 Critical of technological interventions to bring nature back, an environment writer says human actions have brought ecosystems to the brink of an apocalypse In this collection of disquieting and thought-provoking essays, Elizabeth Kolbert persuades us that the world is in entirely uncharted territory. She picks up the thread from her previous...

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I had hoped that Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book was going to deliver some good news. It is about how we are going to use technology to fix nature.On the evidence of her previous bestselling