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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)
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"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)
Clive Ponting's bestselling study of man's despoliation of the planet - now completely revised and updated.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 184595081X
- ISBN 13 9781845950811
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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