From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Peter Brannen, the author of “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”
Throughout billions of years of Earth’s history, the planet has gone through a lot of change, to put it mildly. Earth froze over almost completely, more than once, and then lost all its ice as croc...
**STEELMAN:** Brannen’s narrative compellingly frames CO2 as both a life-sustaining force and a destabilizing agent, grounding the climate crisis in deep geological time. By linking human activity to past planetary catastrophes, he underscores the urgency of action while offering a hopeful perspective on human adaptability. The interview avoids alarmism, instead presenting climate change as a solvable challenge rooted in our evolutionary strengths.
**PATTERN SCAN:** The discussion leans on emoti...