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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.

Elizabeth Kolbert

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

Elizabeth Kolbert

As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Elizabeth Kolbert

It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert

Born: 1961 (age 65)

Bio: Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author and professor at Williams College. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.

Known for:

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2006)
The Prophet of Love (2004)

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