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“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist renowned for her in-depth reporting on environmental issues. Born in 1961, she graduated from Columbia University and has worked as a journalist for The New Yorker. Her work has won multiple Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book 'The Sixth Extinction', which provides a detailed account of the loss of biodiversity on Earth. more

“Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.”

Ifs Has Beens Reason Facts Cutting Fundamentals Decades Boat Global Warming Mainstream Veteran Detachment Skeptic Disregard Drifting

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.”

Facts Seems Age Information Movement Information Age

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.”

People World Has Beens Two States Use Running Water United Half United States Majors Rivers Cents

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.”

Way Heart Adventure

Author:Caryll Houselander