Beyond Extinction: The Eternal Ocean. Climate Change & the Continuity of Life

摘要

I was lucky enough in college to take Geology 101 from an incredibly competent, interesting, and interested professor. Mind you, this was the mid 1960s, so he was also big in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), taught (against the department's orders) a few classes on a subversive new theory called "Continental Drift," demonstrated against the US involvement in Vietnam, and yet understood why I was in US Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Dr. Anderson's geology classes drew upon biology, history, philosophy, literature, and yes, even geology His classes were more than interesting, they were fascinating. So why bring this up? Because I want to purvey a sense of the wonderment provided by Wolfgang Grulke in his new publication, "Beyond Extinction" - an unbelievably captivating look at our world from its creation to modern times - from the perspective of the oceans.