Review: Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth

Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth by Molly Bang

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I was not drawn in as strongly to this book as I was [b:Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas|13039569|Ocean Sunlight How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas|Molly Bang|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344693911s/13039569.jpg|18203420]. Maybe it was the palette, maybe it's because I had been looking for a good book on plankton and hadn't been searching for a good book on CO2.

While reading I had a hard time remembering the sun was the narrator because Bang only kept a subtle visual presence on each spread. The little yellow dots in the fossil fuel areas was not quite enough to remind me sunlight was supposed to be a character. I liked the way [a:Carolyn Fisher|1312768|Carolyn Fisher|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-ccc56e79bcc2db9e6cdcd450a4940d46.png] kept her Snowman narrator visually present throughout her presentation on how snow is made in [b:The Snow Show|4414904|The Snow Show|Carolyn Fisher|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328834459s/4414904.jpg|4463068], even when in vapor form.

Still, I like Bang & Chisolm's series, and this felt like a clear and even-handed description of how carbon emissions are related to climate.



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