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Dust : the modern world in a trillion particles / Jay Owens

Author
Owens, Jay
Published
New York : Abrams Press, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
The suburbs of hell -- Turn that country dry -- Dust to dust -- Cleanliness and control -- The vanished sea -- Fallout -- The ice record -- Dust is part of the Earth's metabolism -- Payahuunadü -- Coda.
Summary
"Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought. Yet within the next one hundred years, life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought - and that means dust. In this ground-breaking book, Jay Owens argues that dust is a legacy of twentieth-century progress and a toxic threat to life in the twenty-first. Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles tells the gripping story of how the relentless drive for profit and power has turned the world to powder. Combining history and science, travel and nature writing, Owens shows how the modern world was made through environmental devastation - and then brushed the consequences under the carpet. From particle air pollution and nuclear fallout to desertification, dried-up seas and melting glaciers, we've profoundly altered the planet we live on. The cost to human health - and to the natural world - proves immense. From the California desert and the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma to the desiccated remains of the Aral Sea and the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, we are shown that some of the planet's most remote and forgotten places are central to the modern world. With clarity and insight, Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles helps us understand our legacy and discovers the big ideas found within the smallest particles"--
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ISBN
9781419764165 (hardback)
1419764160 (hardback)
Note
"First published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library
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