![]() is produced and edited by Ellen Silva and Bridget Bentz. But by encouraging us to reevaluate the world around us, these three books offer a vision of a different path forward, one that might steer us safely out of the meteor's path. Reading words printed on dead trees doesn't automatically translate into saving the planet. While Hollywood filmmakers expect Armageddon to come from the skies, Roston says we should all look inward: "We are the meteor." Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators by William Stolzenburg. Roston writes that our use of carbon to create goods has made us "more powerful than plate tectonics" when it comes to the potential for destruction. It occupies a central role in the current debate about climate, but it's also found in the food we eat, the pills we pop - even high-end tennis rackets and bicycles. ![]() ![]() I have avoided anything to do with organic chemistry for years, but Roston's book convinced me that the fastest way to understand "everything larger than an atom and smaller than a planet," is through the element carbon. While Stolzenburg examines nature on a sweeping scale, former Time journalist Eric Roston drills down to the atomic heart of the planet in The Carbon Age. Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA ISBN-13: 9781596916241. ![]() The Carbon Age, by Eric Roston, paperback, 320 pages ![]()
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