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Elemental = how five elements changed earth's past and will shape our future /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Elemental/ Stephen Porder.
Reminder of title:	how five elements changed earth's past and will shape our future /
Author:	Porder, Stephen.
Published:	Princeton, NJ :Princeton University Press, : 2023.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Civilization. -
Online resource:	https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/PUPB0009534.html
ISBN:	9780691248363

Elemental = how five elements changed earth's past and will shape our future /
Porder, Stephen.

Elementalhow five elements changed earth's past and will shape our future /[electronic resource] :Stephen Porder. - 1st ed. - Princeton, NJ :Princeton University Press,2023. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Elemental : how five elements changed earth's past and will shape our future -- Contents -- Introduction: World-Changers -- Part I: Lessons from the Past -- 1. The Biggest Environmental Change of All -- 2. Plants Colonize the Continents -- Part II: Are We so Different? -- 3. Life's Battery and Earth's Blanket -- 4. How We Know What We Know about Climate Change -- 5. The Goldilocks Element -- 6. White Gold, Finite and Irreplaceable -- 7. Water, the Key to Life on Land -- Part III: A Way Forward? -- 8. Biogeochemical Luck -- 9. Some Remaining Puzzles -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Index.

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"Over the past four billion years of Earth's history, three organisms-cyanobacteria, plants, and humans--have altered the planet in profound ways by harnessing the availability of five key elements. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus are the most common elements in all forms of life on Earth, and all five circulate between the biotic and abiotic world in biogeochemical cycles. When organisms tap into stores of these elements and change these cycles, they change the atmosphere, climate, and, by extension, the trajectory of life on earth. In the first part of the book, Porder explains how cyanobacteria and plants harnessed critical elements and how their success in doing so was followed by environmental collapse in the form of ice ages. Porder then turns to human-caused climate change. He explores the dramatic ways humans have altered the cycles of these five essential elements and explains the profound effect our actions have on the planet. Porder concludes by exploring how we can reduce our impact on the Earth-both individually and societally-by reorienting ourselves toward recycling critical elements instead of extracting them from more and more obscure sources. Ultimately, understanding the role of element cycling is essential to understanding how humans came to be so successful and to putting us on a path to a sustainable future"--

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780691248363

LCCN: 2022042745Subjects--Topical Terms:

897574
Civilization.

LC Class. No.: QH366.2

Dewey Class. No.: 576.8

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