by Clive Ponting · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099516682
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«A New Green History of the World» is Clive Ponting's environmental history essay, published by Vintage in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The essay examines the relationship between environment and civilisation, with examples such as Sumeria, ancient Egypt, Easter Island or the Roman Empire. Ponting shows how societies prospered by exploiting resources until they exceeded the limits of the environment, and warns that their current wastefulness may have catastrophic consequences.
This is a revised and expanded 2007 edition, with an updated assessment of the ecological crisis. The subtitle of the work is 'The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilisations'.
For readers interested in global history, ecology and the environment, with an approach that connects the past with the environmental challenges of the present.
