Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Can tiny microbes pack a mighty punch in the climate battle? Ecologist Steven Allison argues for the importance of microbes in fighting climate change in a convincing and hopeful book, The Age of Microbes, says Christa Lesté-Lasserre Steven Allison envisions using non-toxic and non-pathogenic microbes in the fight against climate change _Harvard University Press Out 3 November (US) and 27 November (UK)_ It’s 2030.
Heatwaves are scorching parts of the globe, while elsewhere, hailstorms or tsunamis ravage homes, cities and farmlands. Wildfires rage across continents, Arctic ice sheets dwindle, volcanoes spew left and right, and Earth cracks open along multiple fault lines. Death tolls – human, animal and plant – soar.
Amid this doom and gloom, a superhero arises from scientific labs, ready to fight our – human-made – enemy, climate change. The tiny figure can trap excess carbon from the atmosphere, or bury it underground or at the bottom of the sea, for near-eternity. It can fuel jet engines with clean energy, replace chemical fertilisers, save coral reefs from bleaching and disease, and re-engineer trees, food crops and other plants to survive, even thrive, in droughts.
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