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“This book is about the magic of photosynthesis and how plants and algae turn sunlight into energy to make life on this planet possible. Read it and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food to feed the world.” – PAUL NURSE, Nobel Prize winner and author of What is Life?
In Light to Life, biologist Raffael Jovine takes us on a journey of discovery into the intricate, beautiful and often surprising processes that convert energy from the sun into life.
Despite the unprecedented challenges the Earth faces from global warming, habitat loss and population growth; Jovine shows us that there is hope to be found. Photosynthesis is the very source of life: it has the power not just to produce food, but to reshape continents, drive biogeochemical cycles, stabilise the climate and regulate weather.
In this exciting, revelatory book, Jovine unveils a blueprint for the future: greening the desert, bringing the ocean on land, planting mangrove forests and growing algae for food and soil carbon… He demonstrates how, by harnessing photosynthesis, we can regenerate the planet and revise the way we interact with it.
This book will help you to see the world in a different way, in all its wonderful detail – through the photosynthetic pigments in your eyes.
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“This book is about the magic of photosynthesis and how plants and algae turn sunlight into energy to make life on this planet possible. Read it and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food to feed the world.” – PAUL NURSE, Nobel Prize winner and author of What is Life?
In Light to Life, biologist Raffael Jovine takes us on a journey of discovery into the intricate, beautiful and often surprising processes that convert energy from the sun into life.
Despite the unprecedented challenges the Earth faces from global warming, habitat loss and population growth; Jovine shows us that there is hope to be found. Photosynthesis is the very source of life: it has the power not just to produce food, but to reshape continents, drive biogeochemical cycles, stabilise the climate and regulate weather.
In this exciting, revelatory book, Jovine unveils a blueprint for the future: greening the desert, bringing the ocean on land, planting mangrove forests and growing algae for food and soil carbon… He demonstrates how, by harnessing photosynthesis, we can regenerate the planet and revise the way we interact with it.
This book will help you to see the world in a different way, in all its wonderful detail – through the photosynthetic pigments in your eyes.
