ISBN: 9781845950811

Clive Ponting’s international bestseller provides a compelling story of how we have damaged the environment for thousands of years, together with an up-to-the-minute assessment of t… Meer...

Clive Ponting’s international bestseller provides a compelling story of how we have damaged the environment for thousands of years, together with an up-to-the-minute assessment of the crisis we face today — and the challenges in the search for solutions. Clive Ponting, Books, History, A New Green History Of The World Books>History Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human beings have repeatedly 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 collapsed. He shows, for example, how the fall of Rome has particular and vital importance for our modern global civilization.<