A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point where those resources could no longer sustain the societies' populations, and subsequently collapse. In this context, the collapse of Rome has vital importance for our modern global civilization. Destructive environmental ...
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A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point where those resources could no longer sustain the societies' populations, and subsequently collapse. In this context, the collapse of Rome has vital importance for our modern global civilization. Destructive environmental behaviour today takes place on a scale much greater than in previous times, and the results will be similarly multiplied. This book, calmly and sanely, argues for an increased realization of the finite nature of our resources, and the impact on our world should we continue squandering those resources.
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Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Historian Clive Ponting shows how the story of the fall of Rome--with the ever expanding population and ever evolving technological complexity, finally exhausted its natural resources and had an ecological breakdown that doomed its society--is repeated throughout history all over the world, from Sumeria to ancient Egypt to Easter Island. Human beings prosper by exploiting the natural resources available to them until those resources can no longer sustain them, which leads to a decline and eventual collapse of that society. Book is clean and unmarked with slight wear to cover edges, pages toned, quite clean, no markings. 430 pages. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. 1993, Penguin Books, New York.
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