The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

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\Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for.\ --Nature<\/i> <\/b> <\/p>\A superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style.\ --E. O. Wilson<\/b> <\/p>\<\/b>Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More<\/i> is thoughtful, informative, and--above all--essential.\<\/b> --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction<\/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 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, The Story of More<\/i> is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it.