I just finished reading a book titled STRATA, by Laura Poppick. I don’t remember what tempted me to pick it up, and I still can’t understand why I did. Anytime it takes me two weeks to read a book with 241 pages, it tells me something. The something, is that technical works in fields like geology and anthropology are outside my sphere of interest. The first half dealt with how the earth became oxygenated over a period of billions of years. The final chapters finally struck a chord with me in that they covered catastrophic events that caused mass extinctions, and developments that led to the appearance of man. I most liked the final discussion on global warming and what happens. It confirmed my own theory that warming that takes millions of years to happen will occur no matter how much fossil fuel we burn.
Another thing I was able to learn is that Earth is a living thing and it often has hic-cups that move mountains, and releases gas much like we do. I also learned to appreciate the people who dedicate their lives to studying planet Earth. They are genuinely different but dedicated people.
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