AIRED: March 30, 2020
SPECIAL GUEST: Hope Jahren, Ph.D.
Dr. Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction.
Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit—which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon—but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels.
In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions–from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles—that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide.
She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth, showing us how we can use less and share more.
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A concise and personal examination of a problem that affects everyone on planet Earth. [Jahren] doesn’t use scare tactics or shrill warnings. She clearly shows how the amount of waste created by the privileged could provide plenty for those less privileged. – Kirkus Reviews
Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for. – Nature
ABOUT HOPE JAHREN, PH.D.
HOPE JAHREN is an award-winning scientist who has been pursuing independent research in paleobiology since 1996, when she completed her PhD at University of California Berkeley and began teaching and researching first at the Georgia Institute of Technology and then at Johns Hopkins University. She is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards and is one of four scientists, and the only woman, to have been awarded both of the Young Investigator Medals given within the Earth Sciences. She was a tenured professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu from 2008 to 2016, where she built the Isotope Geobiology Laboratories, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. She currently holds the J. Tuzo Wilson professorship at the University of Oslo, Norway.
