Wednesday, July 30, 2008
New book on carbon
Eric Rolston, an American science writer, has written a fascinating sounding book on carbon. Despite its sensationalist sub-title – “how life’s core element has become civilization’s greatest threat” – The Carbon Age rightly makes the point that carbon is the building block of life. Despite the element’s key role in the natural world it is strangely seen as a great threat to humanity nowadays.
Labels: book, energy, environment, science
