Jaime Green in The New York Times:
The thesis of Peter Brannen’s new book is right there on the cover: “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.” But surely there’s no way he means everything, right?
Oh, does he ever.
This ambitious, absorbing book begins with the origins of life and stretches through the rise of human civilization and technology, including all the modern woes associated now with the troublesome greenhouse gas. By the end, the reader feels convinced: Evolution and human prehistory and wars and the Dutch East Indies Company and the attack on Pearl Harbor and Reagan and Thatcher and and and and and and. … All of it looks like the story of carbon dioxide, after all.
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