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Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert, 2025

A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world.

An intrepid reporter and a skillful translator of scientific idees, Kolbert expertly captures the wonders of nature and paints vivid portraits of the researchers and concerned citizens working to preserve them

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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is, that once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

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"One of the defining features of the Anthropocene is that the world is changing in ways that compel species to move, and another is that it's changing in ways that create barriers—roads, clear-cuts, cities—that prevent them from doing so."

"The Sixth Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert is very good, if inescapably bleak at times. That's a mastodon on the cover.

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The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in a number of categories, which are worth exploring. Here, I’ll only be sharing the fiction and non fiction winners.

Fiction Winner

All The Light We Cannot See is a beautiful book and it was a highlight of my 2014 reading. You can read my review. 

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

‘Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When Marie-Laure is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.  In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.‘ GoodReads

Non Fiction Winner

There’s been a lot of buzz around this book and it’s easy to see why…this time it’s not an asteroid’s fault, it’s ours.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

‘Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.‘ GoodReads

To see the rest of the Pulitzer Prize winners head on over to the official Pulitzer website.

https://lilolia.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/the-2015-pulitzer-prize-winners/

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