Elemental (Stephen Porder)

This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland reveals how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.

Author:: Stephen Porder
Narrator:: Christopher Ragland
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 7:00 h
Format:: MP3 download (308 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Princeton University Press (2023)
Genre:: Science
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01 - Opening Credits, Dedication	0:19	1 MB
02 - Introduction, World-Changers	25:51	19 MB
03 - Part 1 - Lessons From the Past, Chapter 1, The Biggest Environmental Change of All	41:06	30 MB
04 - Chapter 2 - Plants Colonize the Continents	42:02	31 MB
05 - Part 2 - Are We So Different , Chapter 3, Life s Battery and Earth s Blanket	40:40	29 MB
06 - Chapter 4 - How We Know What We Know about Climate Change	43:21	32 MB
07 - Chapter 5 - The Goldilocks Element	31:57	23 MB
08 - Chapter 6 - White Gold, Finite and Irreplaceable	42:59	31 MB
09 - Chapter 7 - Water, the Key to Life on Land	46:31	33 MB
10 - Part 3 - A Way Forward , Chapter 8, Biogeochemical Luck	48:20	34 MB
11 - Chapter 9 - Some Remaining Puzzles	56:58	41 MB
12 - Closing Credits	0:48	1 MB

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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland reveals how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.
Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life's essential elements—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilization, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future.
Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life's essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.

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