Story of More

<b>The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. - <b><b></b>Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? <b>--</b>Elizabeth Kolbert <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Sixth Extinction</i></b> <p/>The voice that science has been waiting for. --<i>Nature</i> </b> <p/>Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist a brilliant writer a passionate teacher and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In <i>The Story of More</i> she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise highly readable chapters she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles--that even as they help us release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively personal narrative given to us in Jahren's inimitable voice <i>The Story of More</i> is a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years (E. O. Wilson).