Books Details
Author : Hope Jahren Pages : pages Publisher : Language : ISBN-10 :
B07VY7QVK9 ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the
defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless
pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be
our salvation. Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer,
and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of
More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads
of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising
spirit?which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon?but
also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our
planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us
through the science behind the key inventions?from electric power to large-
scale farming and automobiles?that, even as they help us, release untenable
amounts of carbon dioxide into the
