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Carbon: The Book of Life

by Paul Hawken

Carbon as a thread through life

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    New York Times bestselling author

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Carbon as a thread through life

Paul Hawken uses carbon as a lens for exploring the connections that shape the living world. The book ranges across planetary history and such subjects as plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farming, tracing carbon’s place in both natural systems and human experience. It also addresses the contrast between carbon’s essential role in life and its association with climate change, presenting a broader account of the element and its possible relevance to future human endeavors. The scope links natural history with questions about how people understand their relationship to nature.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in natural history and the living world
  • Those curious about carbon’s role across ecosystems and human life
  • Readers exploring the relationship between nature, climate change, and human activity

Themes

Carbon and living systemsPlanetary historyNature and human experienceFood and farmingClimate change

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Book overview

A journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken

Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth's composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization.

Here, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbon's omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life. Hawken charts a course across our planetary history, guiding us into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to offer a new narrative for embracing carbon's life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor.

In this stirring, hopeful, and deeply humane book, Hawken illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and asks us to see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined--inseparably connected.
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