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The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (2020 original; edición 2020)

por Hope Jahren (Autor)

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"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 atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it."--… (más)
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Título:The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
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This is a concise, straightforward detailing of what has changed in our world to propel us towards irreversible climate change in the last few decades. There's really no arguing with the facts here, but the conclusion of "what can you do as one person to reduce your impact" is just not it. Widespread national change needs to be enacted to even make a dent, and no matter how many vegetarians pop up it just won't be enough. The tone here is somber, and with good reason. ( )
  KallieGrace | Jan 3, 2024 |
A must-read for anyone interested in how our world is changing. Excellently researched and written. Unlike many books about this topic, which leave the reader feeling overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problems facing our planet, Jahren offers practical steps to take and questions to ask to effect change. Most of all, she offers her readers hope that, just like our ancestors before us who faced oppressing odds, we can find solutions. ( )
  cowallr | Oct 23, 2023 |
I've never regreted reading anything, book or blog or web page, by Hope Jahren. ( )
  mykl-s | Feb 21, 2023 |
I really love Hope Jahren's narrative style, how she narrates her own books, and her dry sense of humor. I also love when authors incorporate cross disciplinary research as she does.

This book is interesting, informative, disheartening, hopeful, sad, and a call to action. Reading this in the midst of the social distancing, and quarantining going on due to COVID-19 which is resulting in a significant reduction of "more" I feel like we as a society could use this as motivation for long term habitual change. Drive less, telecommute more, use airplanes less, travel closer to home, consume less. ( )
  bangerlm | Jan 18, 2023 |
This was the sustainability/summer research book for summer 2020. I bought a copy but did not get around to reading it for two years. This is less depressing than the other sustainability selections, but still the message seems to be hopelessness, Jahren's final chapter of positivity notwithstanding. Yes, we need to find a way to take less, but I have no confidence that we, as a species, will do that. ( )
  Pferdina | Sep 4, 2022 |
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (A.D. 121–180)”
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Important men have been arguing about global change since before I was born.
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Pig's Eye, Minnesota (zip code 55102), is not as glamorous as it sounds.
We live in an age when we can order a pair of shoes from a warehouse on the other side of the planet and have them shipped to a single address in less than twenty-four hours; don't tell me that a global food redistribution is impossible.
Let's assume, for the moment, that we have a choice. Now let's ask ourselves: Is this how we want to live?
We are using more and more energy, but we have begun to find other ways to get it besides fossil fuels. The magnitude of these "other ways" is no more than a layer of icing on top of a bigger and bigger piece of energy cake that we eat each day. What we never seem to do is stop and ask ourselves if we really need dessert. We've put off that question again and again, while the refineries pulse and the world burns.
A series of disasters, including Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, alerted us to the fact that nuclear power plants—like all technologies—are only as competent as whichever Homer Simpson is at the helm.
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"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 atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it."--

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