Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet

From acclaimed science journalist Oliver Morton comes this fascinating, lively, profound look at photosynthesis.

This book is a bottom-up account of our planet, a celebration of how the smallest things influence the largest things such as the oceans, the rainforests, and the fossil fuel economy by loooking at the physics, chemistry, and cellular biology that make photosynthesis possible. This book reveals that photosynthesis is not only the key to humanity’s history; it is also vital to confronting and understanding realities like climate change and the global food shortage. This book gives readers a new and perhaps troubling way of seeing the world, but it also explains how we can change our situation—for the worse or the better.

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