世界的终结
The ends of the world
Peter Brannen · 初版 2017 年
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为什么值得读
- 深入浅出梳理五次生物大灭绝事件的前因后果
- 揭示碳循环与地质活动如何主导地球气候剧变
- 将史前生态大灾难与现代环境问题紧密关联
“随着开创性的新研究表明，气候变化在地球历史上最极端的浩劫中扮演了重要角色，屡获殊荣的科学记者 Peter Brannen 带我们踏上了一段穿梭于地球五次生物大灭绝的狂野之旅，并在此过程中让我们得以窥见我们日益危险的未来。”——“一段关于地球五大生物大灭绝、每次大灭绝中失落的远古世界，以及它们能为我们不远的未来带来何种启示的生动旅程。导致恐龙灭绝的真的是小行星吗？抑或是二氧化碳驱动的气候变化？事实上，科学家们如今
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我刚好读过一本讲这个主题的绝赞好书，叫《世界末日》（The Ends of the World）：https://jakeseliger.com/2017/09/18/the-ends-of-the-world-pet....。但这本书是通过探讨过去五次生物大灭绝事件来展开的。事实证明，要么每一次……
I read an excellent book, The Ends of the World, on just this subject: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/09/18/the-ends-of-the-world-pet.... But the book gets there through looking at the last five mass extinction events. It turns out that either every…
……美国边疆。我以前完全不知道美国边疆曾经爆发过毁灭性的、全球规模最大的蝗灾，却在 19 世纪末突然销声匿迹了。Peter Brannen 写的《世界末日》：关于大灭绝及其往往由地质原因引起的大科普。Rick Perstein 写的《尼克松时代》：这本我还在啃，不过深入了解那个时代的美国政治在当下显得相当契合……
…the American Frontier. I had no idea the American frontier was home to devastating largest-in-the-world locust plagues that suddenly disappeared near the end of the 19th century. By Peter Brannen: The Ends of the World. A great primer on mass extinctions and their often geologic causes. By Rick Perstein: Nixonland. Still working on this one, but a deep dive into that era of American politics feels quite relevant at…
Peter Brannen 写的《世界末日》https://www.amazon.com/Ends-World-Apocalypses-Understand-Ext... 这本书讲的是过去几次重大灭绝事件以及它们对我们当前处境的启示。里面有太多的历史……
'The Ends of the World' by Peter Brannen https://www.amazon.com/Ends-World-Apocalypses-Understand-Ext... It's about the major extinction events of the past and their relevance to our current situation. There is so much history…
……读起来很棒。非常浅显易懂。Paul Hawken 的《Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming》是一本很好的进阶读物，能帮你理解什么是必要的以及目前能做什么。Peter Brannen 写的《世界末日：火山大灾变、致命海洋以及我们对地球过往大灭绝的探索》阐释了历史上碳是如何控制地球气候系统的。这就是我的……
…great read. Very basic. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken is a good follow up for understanding what is necessary and what can be done. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen explains how historically Carbon has controlled the Earth's climate system. That's my…
另一本推荐读物（我手头正在看）是 Peter Brannen 写的《世界末日：火山大灾变、致命海洋以及我们对地球过往大灭绝的探索》。巧的是我刚读到二叠纪大灭绝事件，作者在那里……
Another recommended read (which I’m in the middle of right now) is The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen. Coincidentally I’ve just reached the Permian mass extinction event, where the author…
……在这颗星球的大部分生命史中，这种说法都是不成立的。Peter Ward 的《绿空之下》从科学角度出发是一本关于该主题的好书，而 Peter Brannen 的《世界末日》则以更偏记者的笔法涵盖了更广泛的内容。我们拥有的地质证据极力表明，二氧化碳的急剧上升和突发的气候变化正是许多次大灭绝的罪魁祸首……
…on this planet for the majority of life on the planet, this statement is false. Peter Ward's Under a Green Sky is a great read on this subject from a scientific point of view and Peter Brannen's The Ends of the World covers it more broadly with a more journalistic style. The geological evidence we have strongly suggests that rapid rise in CO2 and sudden climate change have been responsible for many of the great extinction…