Michael Mann Our fragile moment

how lessons from the earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis

"For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. Then came the first proto-humans, who emerged just a little more than 2 million years ago - a fleeting moment in geological time. What is it that made this benevolent moment of ours possible? Ironically, it's the very same thing that now threatens us - climate change. The drying of the tropics during the Pleistocene period created a niche for early hominids, who could hunt prey as forests...

Engels | 306 pagina's | Scribe, London | 2023

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