Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World green and blue pen

green and blue pen

Elizabeth Van Lew

and powerful politicians—not just violence—were the true engines of the 1980s drug trade

all had died of aggressive cancer

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World green and blue penOne of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3. 7 billion yearsmost of our planets history and over a quarter of the