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'''Feild Notes From a Catastrophe: Man Nature and Climate change written by Elizabeth Kolbert is a detailed, informitive response to the dramatic and drastic changes in the earths climate.

Summary
Chapter four The Butterfly and the Toad describes Kolbert's interviews with scientists from around the world who have conducted experiments to prove that climate change inevitably affects many organisms' genetic structures and habitats. Kolbert attempts to reveal that global warming is the cause for these events. She interviews with three biologists,Chris Thomas, William Bradshaw and Christina Holzapfel, one paleoecologist, Thomas Web III. Kolbert follows scientific observations based upon the studies of the Comma Butterfly, the mosquito "Wyeomyia Smithii", The Golden Toad, and pollen grains, among many other studies. Kolbert is concerned with the frightening reality that if species are being genetically changed and on the verge of extinction than the availability of our natural resources for future will be in jeopardy.

Themes
One Of Kolbert's Main themes is summarized in this quote "WAKE UP". She describes through out the book that there is an anxiousness among the people around the world but they do not recognize the reality or importance of there anxiousness. She describes to the reader, through her interviews, that it is the highly informed and educated scientists who are conducting the research and are expressing the danger and validation that there is a world wide epidemic and it is called global warming.

She expresses that it is our duty to become aware of the situation at hand With the hard facts that this book present to us, our awareness of nature and it's vitality to living is heightened when we are confronted with the extinction of different species.

Kolbert stresses the importance of the role that man vs. nature plays when it comes to global warming. Her opinion comes off to the readers as one that supports the idea of power that humans as superior beings embody. She seems to believe that we have the power to change or lessen the effects of global warming by becoming more environmentally friendly, aware and cautious of our actions.