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The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here, Hope Jahren

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Jahren, Hope

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Jahren, Hope

Summary

The author uses several the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--to illustrate that the science improves human life, but also releases untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The author explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back
"Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, 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 atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it"--Provided by publisher

Language: eng

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New York, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020

Extent: 208 pages

Note: "A Vintage books original"--Title page verso

Contents

Growing grain
Raising meat
Finding fish
Making sugar
Throwing it all away
Part three.
Energy
Keeping the lights on
Moving around
The
Part one.
plants we burn
The
wheels we turn
Part four.
Earth
Altered air
Warming weather
Melting ice
Rising waters
The
Life
big good-bye
Another page
Appendix: The story of less
The
action you take
The
difference you make
An
environmental catechism
Sources and suggested reading
Our story begins
Who we are
How we are
Where we are
Part two.
Food

Isbn: 9780525563389

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Label: The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here

Title: The story of more

Title remainder: how we got to climate change and where to go from here

Statement of responsibility: Hope Jahren

Title variation: How we got to climate change and where to go from here

Creator

Jahren, Hope

Author

Jahren, Hope

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Informational works

Language: eng

Summary

The author uses several the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--to illustrate that the science improves human life, but also releases untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The author explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back
"Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, 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 atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it"--Provided by publisher

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