The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

I know I'm in the minority, especially give the fact that The Sixth Extinction won a Pulitzer Prize, but this book wasn't what I was expecting. It was included in a NY Times list of “Best Books About Climate Change,” but the focus is more on evolution and extinction rather than the details of climate change itself. The writing is chatty and frequently entertaining (I learned a lot about what every expert Kolbert met with looked like, sounded like, and frequently what they ate for breakfast), but the episodic chapters never coalesced together into a single theme of why climate change is happening and what/how we can save our planet. I would have to be made of stone to not be moved by profiles like the scientist who keeps the cells of the last member of an obscure bird species alive in a tank of liquid nitrogen, but I needed the author to connect the dots more than she did. Maybe there was a Beginner's Book on Climate Change I should have read first?

Review written during the COVID 19 pandemic, maybe nothing can affect me these days that isn't virus-related.