The Story of More

Resumen del libro

;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 inventionsfrom electric power to large-scale farming to automobilesthat, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warmingfrom superstorms to rising sea levelsand 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.

Biografía del autor

Hope Jahren es una de las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo según la revista Time.<br> Ha recibido tres premios Fulbright en geobiología y es además la única mujer a la que se le ha otorgado la Medalla para Jóvenes Investigadores en Ciencias de la Tierra, distinción que únicamente han obtenido otros tres científicos. Elegida por la revista Popular Science como una de las jóvenes científicas más brillantes del año 2005, ha impartido clases en diversas universidades de Estados Unidos. En la actualidad es profesora titular en la Universidad de Hawái.