Cover
Title Page
Imprint Page
Contents
Part I: Carbon, Carbon Everywhere
Carbon in Everything
Fire Explained
The Master of Disguise: Soft, Hard and Round
Nylon Tights and their Descendants
Carbon on Wheels
Plastic Fantastic
Synthias as a Carbon Company
To Build and to Burn: Carbon in the Life Equation
From C3 to C4 – and the World’s Most Important Protein
Atomic Physics’s Solution to Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis in Reverse
Good Neighbours
C and 4H: A Hot Partnership
The Benefits of Methane
Archaea
The Keeling Curve
A Swede before His Time
One or Many Cycles?
Pyramids, Chains and Webs
The Carbon Queen Emiliania
Borealis
Paradise Lost
The Long Carbon Cycle
The Anthropocene
Gaia and Feedbacks
Bluer and More Acidic
Methane Bombs
Between a Snowball and Hell
Oxygen’s Evolution
Nitrogen and Phosphorus: The Great Circulatory Changes
Part III: The Footprint
Paradise Lost II
Shoe Size
How Bad are Bananas?
Petroholism’s Withdrawal
Afterlives
References
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index