The Sixth Extinction’ by Elizabeth Kolbert is a Pulitzer Prize winning overview of past and present mass extinctions. Discover why many scientists believe that humans are causing a new era of mass extinction today.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://daretoknow.ca/2021/04/21/the-sixth-extinction-an-unnatural-history-a-review/

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