Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate…
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Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course.For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. What is it that made this benevolent moment of ours possible? Then came the first proto-humans, who emerged just a little more than 2 million years ago--a fleeting moment in geological time.
The sudden cooling episode known as the "Younger Dryas" 13,000 years ago, 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 gave way to savannahs in the African tropics.