[PDF.52yt] A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

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 | #1511766 in Books |  1993-04-01 |  1993-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.76 x.80 x4.96l,.0 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.| Essential reading - but frustrating|By Richard Middleton|In an age of specialization, the author provides a much-needed (and brilliant) general overview of man's impact on the planet. It is hard to imagine anyone, after reading this book, seriously arguing that the western lifestyle (and especially the American lifestyle) can be sustained much longer. We may succeed in ha|From Library Journal|British historian Ponting provides a fascinating and comprehensive environmental perspective on the rise and fall of civilizations, including the Sumerians, the Egyptians, and the Mayans. Beginning with hunting-and-gathering societies, settl

A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point where those resources could no longer sustain the societies' populations, and subsequently collapse. In this context, the collapse of Rome has vital importance for our mod...

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