Becoming Earth
How Our Planet Came to Life
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Product details:
- Edition number Main Market Ed.
- Publisher Picador
- Date of Publication 12 June 2025
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9781529038200
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 197x130 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A revolutionary and hopeful account of Earth not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved but as a planet which came to life.
MoreLong description:
The New York Times Bestseller
A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life.
?Full of conceptual twists and wonderful character? - Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
'Poetic . . . engaging . . . lucid' - The Times Literary Supplement
The notion of a living world is one of humanity?s oldest beliefs. Though once scorned by many scientists, the concept of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. Life not only adapts to its surroundings ? it also shapes them in dramatic and enduring ways. Over billions of years, life transformed a lump of orbiting rock into our cosmic oasis, breathing oxygen into the atmosphere, concocting the modern oceans, and turning rock into fertile soil. Life is intertwined with Earth?s capacity to regulate its climate and maintain balance.
Through compelling narrative, evocative descriptions and lucid explanations, Ferris Jabr shows us how Earth became the world we?ve known, how it is rapidly becoming a very different world, and how we will determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come.
'Wide-ranging and thought-provoking' - The Guardian
'A compelling account of interconnectedness' - New Scientist
This is the book I'd been waiting for. It tells my favorite kind of science story: one that seems at first counter-intuitive, but then quickly becomes obviously true ? a story so important and compelling that I am going to be recommending it for years. More
