Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecology. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 December 2007

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

http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Green-History-World-Civilizations/dp/0099516683

The book is definitely a bit boring and dry, yet the amount of information exposed is overwhelming; the report on how humans have systematically destroyed the planet's resources is blood chilling. The last chapter about global warming is very realistic and leaves no room for hope.