Is Humankind the New Planet and Species-Destroying Asteroid?
After fighting so long as a Cassandra of the coming ecological catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert's latest, The Sixth Extinction, embraces the long view of disaster.
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‘The Sugar Season’ Is a Bittersweet Warning
The addled combinations of sap and syrup, air and gravity, evaporation and consolidation also serve as a humble harbinger of global warming.