DUST

p i Dust i is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell but and also with an ethical argument to advance b Robert Macfarlane b br br Superb i b Telegraph b i br br Brilliant i b Sunday Times b i br br Eye opening impressive i b Guardian b i br br Like a detective dusting for fingerprints Jay Owens masterfully reveals the hidden traces of modernity by following some of its smallest fragments b James Vincent author of i Beyond Measure i b br br br Dust may seem inconsequential so tiny and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought Yet within the next one hundred years life on Earth will be profoundly changed by heat and drought and that means dust br br In this ground breaking book Jay Owens argues that dust is a legacy of twentieth century progress and a toxic threat to life in the twenty first br br i Dust The Modern World in a Trillion Particles i tells the gripping story of how the relentless drive for profit and power has turned the world to powder Combining history and science travel and nature writing Owens shows how the modern world was made through environmental devastation and then brushed the consequences under the carpet From particle air pollution and nu