There are a lot of things going wrong in the world, but it is difficult to downplay the ecological crises we are currently witnessing.  Repeated studies have been published describing a loss of biodiversity happening at a rate never seen before.  Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History describes the extinctions that are occurring around us in the context of five major extinctions in Earth’s history. Unlike so many books about environmental crises, Kolbert stays even-keeled, with a journalist’s approach to describing what, why, […]