A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great CivilizationsClive Ponting's original and provocative history of human civilization'now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition Years ahead of its time, Clive Ponting captivated readers with A Green History of the World, his study of great civilizations and the causes of their fall. Using the Roman empire as its central example, this classic work reveals how overexpansion and the exhaustion of available natural resources have played key roles in the collapse of all great cultures in human history. With an argument of urgent relevance to our modern society, A Green History of the World offers a provocative and illuminating view of human history and its relationship to the environment. |
Contents
The Lessons of Easter Island | 1 |
The Foundations of History | 8 |
Ninetynine per cent of Human History | 17 |
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40 per cent acid rain Africa agriculture amount animals Asia average became Britain British carbon dioxide centimetres centre changes China cities climate coal colonies consumption countries crops cultivated death decades decline disease domesticated Easter Island economic ecosystems effects eighteenth century emissions energy environment environmental Eurasia European export extinction farming fell fertilisers forests fossil fuels gathering and hunting global warming growth half hectares huge human history impact important increase India industrialised world industry irrigation islands killed kilometres labour land large number late levels lived maize major Mesoamerica Mesopotamia metres million tonnes natural nineteenth century North America nuclear outbreak output Overall period plantations plants pollution problems production rapidly reduced rise river rose salinisation scale settlement societies South south-east Asia Soviet Union spread square kilometres Sumer supply Teotihuacan tonnes trade twenty-first century United waste western Europe whaling world's population