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"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 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."--… (meer)
Gr 7–10—Esteemed geochemist Jahren breathes life into the social history and science of climate change by focusing on the latter half of that term: change. This popular science treatise begins with developments over time, from ancient history to the present, in human population, food production, and energy generation and consumption before devoting the final segment to the impact of all this change on our planet.
This is a concise, straightforward detailing of what has changed in our world to propel us towards irreversible climate change in the last few decades. There's really no arguing with the facts here, but the conclusion of "what can you do as one person to reduce your impact" is just not it. Widespread national change needs to be enacted to even make a dent, and no matter how many vegetarians pop up it just won't be enough. The tone here is somber, and with good reason. ( )
A must-read for anyone interested in how our world is changing. Excellently researched and written. Unlike many books about this topic, which leave the reader feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problems facing our planet, Jahren offers practical steps to take and questions to ask to effect change. Most of all, she offers her readers hope that, just like our ancestors before us who faced oppressing odds, we can find solutions. ( )
I really love Hope Jahren's narrative style, how she narrates her own books, and her dry sense of humor. I also love when authors incorporate cross disciplinary research as she does.
This book is interesting, informative, disheartening, hopeful, sad, and a call to action. Reading this in the midst of the social distancing, and quarantining going on due to COVID-19 which is resulting in a significant reduction of "more" I feel like we as a society could use this as motivation for long term habitual change. Drive less, telecommute more, use airplanes less, travel closer to home, consume less. ( )
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (A.D. 121–180)”
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For my mother and because of my father
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Important men have been arguing about global change since before I was born.
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Pig's Eye, Minnesota (zip code 55102), is not as glamorous as it sounds.
We live in an age when we can order a pair of shoes from a warehouse on the other side of the planet and have them shipped to a single address in less than twenty-four hours; don't tell me that a global food redistribution is impossible.
Let's assume, for the moment, that we have a choice. Now let's ask ourselves: Is this how we want to live?
We are using more and more energy, but we have begun to find other ways to get it besides fossil fuels. The magnitude of these "other ways" is no more than a layer of icing on top of a bigger and bigger piece of energy cake that we eat each day. What we never seem to do is stop and ask ourselves if we really need dessert. We've put off that question again and again, while the refineries pulse and the world burns.
A series of disasters, including Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, alerted us to the fact that nuclear power plants—like all technologies—are only as competent as whichever Homer Simpson is at the helm.
At today's rates of electricity consumption and generation, powering America using only hydropower would require fifty functioning Hoover Dams within each one of the fifty states of the Union. Powering America using only wind power would require more than one million wind turbines, or one every mile or so across the whole of the continental United States. As for solar energy, a land area the size of South Carolina would have to be sacrificed to solar panels in order to generate America's annual diet of electricity.
In short, the carbon dioxide molecule has a unique shape that intercepts and then absorbs heat. Add just a little carbon dioxide to a chamber of air, then let the sun shine through it, and the whole thing will heat up much more than a chamber without the extra carbon dioxide.
If there is something in the world nobler than a good dog, I have not yet encountered it.
About half of the global sea-level rise that has occurred during the last fifty years is due to water added to the ocean from melting glaciers. The other half of the sea-level rise is due to the warming of the ocean surface waters. The oceans have absorbed most of the heat trapped by the greenhouse warming, and seawater expands as it heats up. The average temperature of the ocean surface waters has warmed by more than one degree Fahrenheit over the last fifty years; more than three inches of the total global sea level rise came just from the swelling of a warmer ocean.
Our earth is unwell. We have all but used up the brief window when we can act, and we are running out of time. I know this because many of the things around us have already started to die.
America has become that unhappy couple who is mired in fights about the dishes and laundry because both partners are too terrified to earnestly examine any sort of change.
Extinctions are part of the natural course of action on planet Earth; a new food source or living space opens up, and this creates a niche.
All species will go extinct eventually, even our own: it is one of nature's few imperatives. As of today, however, that train has not quite left the station. We still have some control over our demise—namely, how long it will take and how much our children and grandchildren will suffer. If we want to take action, we should get started while it still matters what we do.
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Our history books contain so much—extravagance and deprivation, catastrophe and industry, triumph and defeat—but they don't yet include us. Out before us stretches a new century, and its story is still unwritten. As every author will tell you, there is nothing more thrilling, or as daunting, as the possibilities that burst from a blank page.
"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 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."--
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focusing on the latter half of that term: change. This popular science treatise begins with developments over time,
from ancient history to the present, in human population, food production, and energy generation and consumption
before devoting the final segment to the impact of all this change on our planet.