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Science

Particles of existence

Carbon as the bearer of life
by Dave Witty
July 2025, no. 477

Carbon: The book of life by Paul Hawken

Text Publishing, $34.99 pb, 243 pp

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Carbon is, to quote Paul Hawken’s opening, ‘the narrator of lives born and lost’. It ‘organises, assembles, and builds … the most socially adept entrepreneur in the pantheon of life’. One could, with only a little exaggeration, apply this description to the author of Carbon: The book of life.

 


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Carbon: The book of life by Paul Hawken

Text Publishing, $34.99 pb, 243 pp

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