{"product_id":"9781837732067","title":"Thinking Small and Large : How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Forbes, Peter\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePopular science\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 2 July 2026 by ICON BOOKS in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 130 x 18 | 202g\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly convincing'Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize winner for The SwerveThe environmental crisis will not be solved by battery technology alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThinking Small and Large reveals the ingenuity of microbes at key stages in life's 4 billion year history and highlights their developing role in resolving our deepest problem: climate change that is flooding and burning our world more menacingly every year. Ground-breaking ongoing research with some of the most ancient bacteria is leading to a  parallel carbon economy using engineered bacteria for fuel, food and materials. This would enable rewilding on a vast scale, with the small land footprint of bacterial technologies solving the current conflict in land use between farming and fuel and materials production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating and illuminating book, Peter Forbes shines a light on this crucial technology and offers a tantalising glimpse of what is possible. To solve the big problems you have to think small.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forbes, Peter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53792849854648,"sku":"9781837732067","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781837732067","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}