The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

"Ambitious, absorbing... Brannen is an effusive, maximalist writer, a mind vividly alive on the page... and his arguments, like his writing, are hugely compelling."-The New York Times Book Review

How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance

Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn't merely the by-product of burnin...