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    Aug 07, 2021 5 minutes

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    Dead Serious: Wild Hope Amid the Sixth Extinction

    By Eli J. Knapp, Torrey House Press, 2021, paperback or e-book, 307 pages, $18.95.

    The latest book from Eli J. Knapp, a professor of intercultural studies and biology at Houghton College and a world birder, takes as its jumping-off point a 1983 essay about extinction by conservation biologist Michael Soulé. He listed 18 things we need to know about extinction — rarity, inbreeding, catastrophe, competition, predation, and the like.

    Knapp considers each of the 18 points, one per chapter, but he avoids the trap of writing about this heavy topic in a doom-and-gloom way. Instead, he tells personal stories of mishap and adventure, relates historical vignettes, and considers scenic detours that relate to the critical forces that lie behind the sixth extinction

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