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From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation. 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 .


From the bestselling author of

Lab Girl

comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation.
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 .

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From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent

missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren

on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the

same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation.

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

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