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

Ponting, Clive

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312069871 ISBN 13: 9780312069872

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Historian Ponting examines human history from an environmental perspective how nature has affected the growth of civilizations, and how humanity has altered the earth and concludes that if the current global civilization follows the pattern of earlier civilizations, it will outstrip its resource base, bringing about its own destruction. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review:

"If there is a single book on the subject to engage the enthusiast, silence the cynic and enlighten the ignoramus, this is it" (Observer)

"Ponting's re-evaluation of history is an important antidote to mental troglodytism. It also makes a welcome change from the scatter-gun apocalypse-mongering which has become standard fare in green literature. With luck and foresight, and more books like this, we may yet learn our lesson" (Independent on Sunday)

"Pioneering...a book good enough to rival the best American products in the field... Clive Ponting has embraced a daunting task with commendable success" (Times Literary Supplement)

"An ambitious and thought-provoking attempt to rewrite history from an ecological standpoint" (Independent)

"Large, ambitious and often enthralling, it is a successful attempt to look at the unfolding of world history from an entirely new perspective" (Literary Review)

From the Publisher:

Clive Ponting's bestselling study of man's despoliation of the planet - now completely revised and updated.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312069871
• ISBN 13: 9780312069872
• Binding: Hardcover