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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt; 319 pages; $28 2014 NBCCA nonfiction finalist From colony collapse disorder and the dwindling Monarch butterfly population to the precipitous decline of big trees in California and the “ 13 species we might have to say goodbye to in 2015 ”, the evidence of extinction surrounds & sometimes haunts us. And, yet, so much of daily life seems unremarkable, as we mere Homo sapiens existentially white-knuckle through our waking hours. We might wonder if the pieces fit together or if there's some great meaning behind the apparent rapid rate of global change. Fortunately, as aways, there’s a book to help put some of these questions in perspective. Elizabeth Kolbert, s taff writer for The New Yorker and author of Field Note from a Catastrophe (2006), extends on her previous work in a new monograph cataloguing the inevitable decline of global bio-diversity, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History .  When we hav...