The Book Show #1338 - Elizabeth Kolbert

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published March 11, 2014 at 3:06 PM EDT

New Yorker staff writer and best-selling author Elizabeth Kolbert offers a startling look at the mass extinction currently unfolding before us in her new book – The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.

Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions – we’ll learn more about the sixth with Elizabeth Kolbert.

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