Hope Jahren illuminates the science behind key inventions, clarifying how electricity, large-scale farming, and automobiles have both helped and harmed our world. She explains the current and projected consequences of unchecked global warming, from superstorms to rising sea levels, resulting from the unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere. The links between human consumption habits and our endangered existence are very real. Still, Jahren maintains that our ever-broadening science-based knowledge can help us counter these effects. The eye-opening information in The Story of More will help readers understand the path needed. If we collectively make informed choices now, Jahren reassures, our future can be as bright as we imagine it can be.

"This work is based on The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, published in paperback by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2020"--Title page verso.

Part one :Life : Our story begins -- Who we are -- How we are -- Where we are -- Part two : Food : Growing grain -- Raising meat -- Finding fish -- Making sugar -- Throwing it all away -- Part three : Energy : Keeping the lights on -- Moving around -- The plants we burn -- The wheels we turn -- Part four : Earth : Altered air -- Warming weather -- Melting ice -- Rising waters -- The big goodbye -- Another page.