It does what it promises—covering the history of earth under a climate lenses— but it goes about that in a very weird way.

This felt more like a academic textbook than a published book. While very detailed, the editing did not make it easy to follow, and many chapters felt repetitive while framing the ideas as passing notes. It was just too much history to cover in one volume, and in the end I felt like I learned more fun facts and general trivia than formed a better understanding of the topic.

The idea themselves are interesting and the writing is not really bad, but the end result is very dense and tiring and I was constantly checking to see how close I was to finishing it.