The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything

A moving and magisterial tribute to the magic-seeming chemical interplay of air and rock, plant kingdom and ocean expanse, which scientists dryly call the ‘carbon cycle.’ Upon it, Brannen shows, absolutely all life rests—with growing, and unnerving, precarity

David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth

Urgent and astounding … Brannen weaves together the entire history of Earth, and the origins and tribulations of life over billions of years, with the predicament we find ourselves in today … Brannen is in a class of his own

Steve Brusatte, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

What a brilliant and epic book this is! I study this stuff for a living and still learned so much—how coal nearly froze the planet, why the rocks beneath our feet allow us to breathe, and the origins of our modern industrial world

Kate Marvel, author of Human Nature

As with everything Peter Brannen writes, this is fascinating; deep history brought vividly to life. But it's also crucial--our ability to understand and act on it will determine how the next period in earth's history unfolds

Bill McKibben, author Here Comes the Sun

A completely new vision of Earth and human history that will change your perspective forever

Rebecca Boyle, author of Our Moon