A captivating explorationof climate change that usesnine different emotionsto better understand thescience, history, and futureof our evolving planet

Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day.In the computer models she uses to study climate change, its easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isnt just happening in those models.Its happening here, to the only good planet in the universe.Its happening to us.And she has feelings about that.

Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth.In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change.As expected, there is anger, fear, and griefbut also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted.

Hopeful, heartbreaking, and surprisingly funny, Human Natureis a vital, wondrous exploration of how it feels to live in a changing world.