Dust

DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. - Robert Macfarlane

Combining history and science, a sweeping look at the smallest substance and the biggest challenges facing people and the planet
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Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left over from the birth of the sun. Within the next 100 years, human life on swathes of the Earth''s surface will end in a haze of heat, drought, and, again, dust. Dust is a legacy of 20th-century progress and a profound threat to life in the 21st century.

And yet dust is something we hardly ever consider--it is so small and so mundane as to be beyond the threshold of thought.

Jay Owen''s Dust sparks curiosity and corrects that oversight. This is a book on humanity, the Earth, and what we''ve done t