The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
In The Carbon Age, Eric Roston evokes this essential element, its journey illuminating history from the Big Bang to modern civilization. Charting the science of carbon—how it was formed, how it came to Earth and built up—he chronicles the often surprising ways mankind has used it over centuries, and the growing catastrophe of the industrial era, leading us to now attempt to wrestle the Earth's geochemical cycle back from the brink. Blending the latest science with original reporting, Roston, a former Time journalist, makes us aware, as never before, of the seminal impact carbon has, and has had, on our lives.
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