Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earths Past and Will Shape Our Future Porder Stephen
Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earths Past and Will Shape Our Future Porder Stephen An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare…
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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earths Past and Will Shape Our Future Porder Stephen
An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life's essential elements--hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements