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Title details for The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults) by Hope Jahren - Available

The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults)

How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

by Hope Jahren
Hope Jahren
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The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. • “Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction
"The voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature
Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years" (E. O. Wilson).

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  • Release date

    November 2, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593415702
      • File size: 149091 KB
      • Duration: 05:10:36

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1240
    • Text Difficulty: 9-12

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In careful, measured tones, author/narrator Hope Jahren offers listeners an accessible--and sobering--assessment of how and why we are facing what she sees as our current inflection point in climate change. Pointing out that we've become increasingly practiced at not listening to scientists' warnings, she notes, "Only by seeing where we are can we ask ourselves if this is where we want to be." Full of data and memories, the audiobook's four sections, further broken into short chapters, make Jahren's message easier to absorb and ideal to listen to. She offers steps listeners can take toward positive change--small changes that can have beneficial impacts. Balancing careful, credible research and stories of human experiences, Jahren makes hard truths palatable and personable, offering hope to those who choose to act. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
    • School Library Journal

      Starred review from April 1, 2022

      Gr 5 Up-Award-winning scientist Jahren continues her auspicious author/narrator streak, especially ideal for the adaptation of her lauded 2020 original: her chatty, friendly presentation is an immediate invitation to listen to "what happened to my world, to your world-to our world." Even more compelling is her summons to figure out "where to go from here." Waste is our ultimate challenge: "Every day, almost one billion people go hungry, while a different billion people intentionally discard enough food to feed them." Waste pointlessly destroys "our forests, fresh water and fuel," as well as the "plants and animals that spent the entirety of their short time on this planet in service to our appetites." Throwing away food = throwing away one another's lives! That smack-in-the-head awareness should be the necessary impetus for the newest generations-convincingly guided by Jahren-to engender life-saving change. VERDICT Libraries should arm activists early with empowering tools such as this.

      Copyright 2022 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1240
  • Text Difficulty:9-12

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