A new green history of the world
by Clive Ponting · first published 2007
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A great read on exactly this issue is A New Green History of the World by Clive Ponting. Noticed it is cited in the page linked but wanted to call it out specifically since I have read it and really enjoyed it as a history of human civilization from the perspective of resource…
on “How Civilizations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse” ↗You'd hope so, wouldn't you? However our markets aren't free. I can highly recommend Clive Ponting's "A New Green History of the World". The weight of historical evidence is against us finding a fix. We have tended to over-exploit every resource until it's depleted. For instance, we switched to coal because the wood and whales were running…
on “My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”” ↗