(Vintage) Hope Jahren, an award-winning geobiologist and writer, was tasked with teaching a class on climate change. Feeling like she had no business telling anybody anything about this subject, she resolutely sat down at her desk and began to research change. She catalogued population data, agricultural intensification, increased energy use; she set out to quantify global change in concrete and precise terms. That research became the foundation for her course, as she discovered, along the way, how we got t … (read more)
