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Our fragile moment : how lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis

text Our fragile moment : how lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis

Summary
"The conditions that allowed humans to live on Earth are incredibly fragile. Climate variability has at times created new niches that humans or their ancestors could potentially exploit, and challenges that at times have spurred innovation. But th... Read more
Contents

Our moment begins -- Gaia and Madea : snowball Earth and the faint young Sun -- The great dying wasn't so great -- Mighty brontosaurus : don't you have a lesson for us? -- Hothouse Earth -- A message in the ice -- Beyond the hockey stick -- Past is prologue. Or is it?

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vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher
PublicAffairs 2023

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 363.738 MAN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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