Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Owens Jay
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Owens Jay Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the…
Specifikacia Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Owens Jay
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Owens Jay
Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planetFour-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Dust is a legacy of 20th-century progress and a profound threat to life in the 21st century. Within the next 100 years, human life on swathes of the Earth's surface will end in a haze of heat, drought, and, again, dust.
This is a book on humanity, the Earth, and what we've done to it over the last century. And yet dust is something we hardly ever consider--it is so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought.Jay Owen's Dust sparks curiosity and corrects that oversight. It moves from the sunlit orange groves of a thirsty Los Angeles at the birth of the "automotive
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