The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

This book has managed to make me slightly more optimistic than I was. Even though humans can inadvertently push individual species to extinction, I'm fairly sure there's nothing we could do that would stop life. Granted, we are destroying opportunities to study and enjoy many wonders of the nature, but do humans inherently need to do those things? What if anthropocene extinction enables evolution of a species that's more adept at solving problems of living an energy-intensive life than we will have been?

This isn't exactly a book I'd recommend, reading was a drag at times. It's also not a scientific book in any way, which isn't a critique, it's just something you should be aware of before you read it. It's a book written by a journalist and that's exactly how it reads.