A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Paperback - 2007
by Clive Ponting
Clive 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.
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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.
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Easter Island is one of the most remote, inhabited places on earth.
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- Title A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
- Author Clive Ponting
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Rev Upd
- Pages 452
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, NY
- Date December 18, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143038986 / 0143038982
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.56 x 0.98 in (21.39 x 14.12 x 2.49 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Natural resources, Natural history
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007015544
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.28
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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. (The Sunday Independent, London)
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