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Story of More : How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren (2020, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100525563385
ISBN-139780525563389
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038658765
Product Key Features
Book TitleStory of more : How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicDemography, History, Global Warming & Climate Change
GenreSocial Science, Science
AuthorHope Jahren
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-030078
Reviews"[Hope Jahren] leads us on a journey across time and space, outlining thoughts and beliefs from Mesopotamia to her tiny Minnesota hometown. Along the way she discusses the impact of everything from population growth to Norwegian fishing to nuclear power. She takes this approach in order to present climate change as a result of broader dysfunctions having to do with consumption habits that, she says, don't even make us happy. . . . It's an argument that contrasts with the recent spate of climate books, which opt to pummel readers with facts and guilt. Jahren, who first came to prominence with the best-selling memoir "Lab Girl," instead writes delicately, like the whispery scrape of a skate tracing a figure on the ice." -- The New York Times Book Review "If there's one book all of us should read about the state of the environment, it's this one. . . . [Jahren] pulls off the feat of presenting climate change without emotional baggage through accessibility and humor." --The Washington Independent Review of Books "Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, and--above all--essential." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "A concise and personal yet universally applicable examination of a problem that affects everyone on planet Earth. . . . [Jahren] doesn't use scare tactics or shrill warnings. . . . She clearly shows how the amount of waste created by the privileged could provide plenty for those less privileged." -- Kirkus Reviews "Hope Jahren is an awesome writer and scientist. Her new book, The Story of More , is captivating and compelling. She urges readers to be courageous dealing with global environmental changes and human population growth." --Dudley Herschbach, Nobel Prize-winning chemist " The Story of More is 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, "[Hope Jahren] leads us on a journey across time and space, outlining thoughts and beliefs from Mesopotamia to her tiny Minnesota hometown. Along the way she discusses the impact of everything from population growth to Norwegian fishing to nuclear power. She takes this approach in order to present climate change as a result of broader dysfunctions having to do with consumption habits that, she says, don't even make us happy.... It's an argument that contrasts with the recent spate of climate books, which opt to pummel readers with facts and guilt. Jahren, who first came to prominence with the best-selling memoir "Lab Girl," instead writes delicately, like the whispery scrape of a skate tracing a figure on the ice." -- The New York Times Book Review "If there's one book all of us should read about the state of the environment, it's this one.... [Jahren] pulls off the feat of presenting climate change without emotional baggage through accessibility and humor." --The Washington Independent Review of Books "Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, and--above all--essential." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "A concise and personal yet universally applicable examination of a problem that affects everyone on planet Earth.... [Jahren] doesn't use scare tactics or shrill warnings.... She clearly shows how the amount of waste created by the privileged could provide plenty for those less privileged." -- Kirkus Reviews "Hope Jahren is an awesome writer and scientist. Her new book, The Story of More , is captivating and compelling. She urges readers to be courageous dealing with global environmental changes and human population growth." --Dudley Herschbach, Nobel Prize-winning chemist " The Story of More is 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, "Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative, and--above all--essential." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "A concise and personal yet universally applicable examination of a problem that affects everyone on planet Earth. . . . [Jahren] doesn't use scare tactics or shrill warnings. . . . She clearly shows how the amount of waste created by the privileged could provide plenty for those less privileged." -- Kirkus Reviews "Hope Jahren is an awesome writer and scientist. Her new book, The Story of More , is captivating and compelling. She urges readers to be courageous dealing with global environmental changes and human population growth." --Dudley Herschbach, Nobel Prize-winning chemist " The Story of More is 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
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal363.73/874
SynopsisThe essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. * "Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" --Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction "The voice that science has been waiting for." -- Nature 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 , 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 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)., "Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." -- Nature "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 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 , 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 is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it., The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. " Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). "Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for." -- Nature 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 , 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 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).
LC Classification NumberQC903.J37 2020
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