Our fragile moment how lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis
"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 there's a relatively narrow envelope of climate variabi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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?
