Elizabeth Colbert in "The Sixth Extinction": We cut the branch of the tree we sit on

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The National Council for Culture and Arts, in Kuwait, has published a new edition of the World of Knowledge series entitled "The Sixth Extinction: A Natural History" by American author Elizabeth Colbert, translated by Ahmed Al-Safary and Fathallah Al-Sheikh, in cooperation with the National Center for Translation.

Elizabeth Colbert's book "The Sixth Extinction" deals with how in the last half a billion years the Earth was exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of extinctions that formed a din in the succession of five major extinctions.

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These extinctions are located at the junction of epochs and geological epochs, simply because these extinctions are the end of the era and the beginning of another new era. These extinctions occurred for a variety of reasons: large climate change, ocean chemistry and acidification, asteroid collision, Catastrophes.

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The sixth extinction, the subject of this book, which is taking place now, was caused by the "rational man" of our urbanization and our technologies, which changed the biosphere physically and chemically, and dramatically reduced the habitat of animals and plants.

This led to an unprecedented wave of extinction occurring geologically very quickly, and what one scholar says: "As we do toward other forms of life, we cut off the tree branch on it."

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