Synopsis: The book The Sixth Extinction was a very thought provoking and insightful book, while admittedly missing some sort of climax or suspenseful moment it was still a very fun and entertaining read. The book begins with a basic overview explaining how there have been five major extinctions in the world so far. Now at this point you might be doing what I was doing and thinking that this is actually a comedy because of big someone screwed up, or more notably how nobody noticed it, but then the author finishes the chapter with “In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realise that they are causing another one. When it is still too early to say whether it will reach the proportion of the Big Five, it becomes known as the Sixth Extinction.” and it all makes sense.
The extinction the the author references to is the impending extinction of a vast majority of frog species. There are many that have already gone extinct that humans have never even seen and hundreds more that we have documented but only just barely and many of which are being stored in old abandoned buildings just waiting to die and cause another species of frog to be gone from our world forever. The author talks about this and discusses the idea that this extinction might migrate to other amphibians aside from just frogs. She also mentions that at the rate that these frogs are dying that even without other amphibians dying off as well it will probably lead to a collapse of the ecosystem.
Rating: 4
Synopsis: The book The Sixth Extinction was a very thought provoking and insightful book, while admittedly missing some sort of climax or suspenseful moment it was still a very fun and entertaining read. The book begins with a basic overview explaining how there have been five major extinctions in the world so far. Now at this point you might be doing what I was doing and thinking that this is actually a comedy because of big someone screwed up, or more notably how nobody noticed it, but then the author finishes the chapter with “In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realise that they are causing another one. When it is still too early to say whether it will reach the proportion of the Big Five, it becomes known as the Sixth Extinction.” and it all makes sense.
The extinction the the author references to is the impending extinction of a vast majority of frog species. There are many that have already gone extinct that humans have never even seen and hundreds more that we have documented but only just barely and many of which are being stored in old abandoned buildings just waiting to die and cause another species of frog to be gone from our world forever. The author talks about this and discusses the idea that this extinction might migrate to other amphibians aside from just frogs. She also mentions that at the rate that these frogs are dying that even without other amphibians dying off as well it will probably lead to a collapse of the ecosystem.