Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Korbert Summary

Our environment is our responsibility and it is time that everyone starts working towards caring and protecting it. Although our planet is at stake and protecting it won’t happen overnight, addressing global issues of climate change needs to an integral activity for each individual. Human activity has changed our planet drastically so the actions of people need to be regulated and mitigated to ensure that the planet’s life becomes more manageable and well cared for. By doing so, we will be able to preserve the planet, humankind, and the species and combat the sixth extinction as advised by Elizabeth Kolbert. This is a very serious issue and people need to start applying the ideas of McDonough and O’Connor as well as Bill Gates. Rachel Carson, credited by many to have brought the issues of conservation to the public eye, believed that “people care about the problem of sharing the planet with other species” and that increasing this awareness would be enough to avert the global impact of Kolbert’s “sixth
In her writing, she blends intellect and natural history as she reports a powerful account on the mass extinction, which is about to happen if people are not careful about our planet. She refers to the fact that there have been five extinctions that have destroyed a majority of the diverse life on earth and how with the activities that are now taking place the sixth one is on the way. According to her, the sixth extinction will be dangerous and very devastating; she talks about how human beings continue to alter life on earth and she provides an account of the disappearances that are about to occur. She explains about the collision existing between civilization and the planet’s ecosystem as she examines the role of man-made climate changes as a cause for the sixth mass extinction, which is expected to wipe out 20% to 50 % of all the living species on