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The Ends of the World

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The Ends of the World
Full titleThe Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
AuthorPeter Brannen
Published2017
Pages321
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listThe five mass extinctions, reported from the rock — and the case that carbon has been the mechanism nearly every time.

Where I heard about it

  • Replies to @SpencrGreenberg — named in the answers to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (the thread, June 2025).

Connections

  • A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • Evolution · Energy · History — where this sits in the corpus.
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