**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).
