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OUR FRAGILE MOMENT: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

by Michael Mann (Scribe, $40)

“ We’re burning through fossil fuels a million times faster than they formed.

Of all the planets in the universe that could in theory support life, we’ve so far found none even remotely as benevolent as Earth. Our planet delivers perfect “Goldilocks” conditions – not too much and

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