![]() She profiles specific efforts to undo damage to the natural world caused by human efforts to rid a pest or secure our water supplies or fuel our cars and factories. Her new book, she says, is about people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems. Her last book, "The Sixth Extinction," which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, explored the many ways humans are now driving existing species to extinction. And today, people on Earth outweigh wild mammals by a ratio of more than 8 to 1. We've dammed or diverted most of the rivers on Earth, she writes. Our guest, New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert has a new book which deals, as much of her writing does, with the enormous impact we humans have on the planet we inhabit and the species we share with it. I'm Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross. ![]()
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