{"product_id":"thinking-small-and-large-9781837732067","title":"Thinking Small and Large : How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly convincing'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Swerve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Peter Forbes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePopular science, Energy, Microbiology (non-medical)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 Jul 2026 by Icon Books.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Forbes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57322343104890,"sku":"9781837732067","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781837732067.jpg?v=1790687674","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/thinking-small-and-large-9781837732067","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}