Monday, February 24, 2014

NPR's Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, Author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

In this interview, Kolbert discusses some of the environmental concerns of the Romantic period.  She specifically talks about Cuvier and catastrophism among other things.

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/282140062/KERA_282140062.mp3

<p>[2014-02-24 12:00:00] In the last 500 million years, there have been five mass extinctions on Earth. And some scientists are saying we should prepare for the next one. We'll find out why with New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert, who visited geologists, botanists and biologists across the globe in researching her new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.</p>

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