Like Jared Diamond's "Collapse", Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human beings have repeatedly 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 collapsed. He shows, for example, how the fall of Rome has particular and vital importance for our modern global civilization. Destructive environmental behaviour today takes place on a much larger scale than ever before and the consequences will be correspondingly greater. Ponting argues for a higher sensitivity to the finite nature of our resources and the catastrophic impact on our modern world, should we continue to squander those resources. This new edition of Clive Ponting's international bestseller has been revised, expanded and updated. It provides not only a compelling story of how we have damaged the environment for thousands of years but also an up-to-the-minute assessment of the crisis facing the world today - and the problems that have to be faced in the search for solutions.

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

History

PONTING, Clive

World

Vintage Books

Will modern society survive the current environment crisis it faces or will our civilization dwindle and fade in the face of global warming, worldwide pollution and mass poverty and starvation? This book provides an interpretation of human history on a global scale from a "green" perspective - revealing just how old many of our contemporary environmental problems really are.

A Green History of the World

Business & Money

Economics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

In an important work that forces readers to view history with new eyes, Ponting shows in compelling detail how, over and over, human beings throughout history have prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources to the point where they could no longer sustain societies' populations, causing collapse. Publicity to tie in with Earth Day (April 23rd).

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

Penguin??Books

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.

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

This history of 1940 cuts away at the myth of survival against the odds and Churchillian bravado during the first year of World War II. It shows what the real situation was, how government reacted, the reality of Anglo-American relations, and the relations between London and the Commonwealth. For the last 50 years 1940 has been regarded as Britain's finest hour. In this book, however, Clive Ponting reveals that the truth was deliberatley hidden both at the time and subsequently. This study also shows how the events and myths of 1940 have come to influence Britain's post-war history.

1940: Myth and reality

Europe

Hamilton

Historian Ponting examines human history from an environmental perspective how nature has affected the growth of civilizations, and how humanity has altered the earth and concludes that if the current global civilization follows the pattern of earlier civilizations, it will outstrip its resource base, bringing about its own destruction. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

Britain has one of the most extensive systems controlling the flow of information of any Western democracy. In this book Britain Clive Ponting discusses the passing of the 1911 and 1920 Acts, and famous prosecutions brought under these Acts including Compton Mackenzie, the "Crossman Diaries", Sarah Tisdall, "Spycatcher" and Ponting himself. The author charts the growth of secrecy institutions in Britain in non-security areas, the development of the "secret state" and its apparatus, and the growing pressure for reform over the past 20 years.

Secrecy in Britain (Historical Association Studies)

Americas

Blackwell Pub.

This fresh, revisionist examination of World War II covers its huge subject by categories, and debunks many of the convenient myths that have grown up about the conflict, using irrefutable statistics and facts garnered from a wide variety of sources. 5 maps.

Armageddon: The Reality Behind the Distortions,: Myths, Lies, Illusions of World War II

Random House]

Physical description; xii, 378 p. ; 24 cm. Subject; World War, 1914-1918 - Causes.

Thirteen Days : Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War

London: Chatto & Windus

With his sharp eye and analytical mind, Clive Ponting explodes many of the romantic myths which grew up in the years following the Crimean War, while telling the true story of the heroism of ordinary men. Above all, he makes use of the testimony of eyewitness accounts, from William Russell of The Times, the first war correspondent, to Leo Tolstoy, who was caught up in the action while visiting his brother, to the memories of a variety of serving soldiers.

The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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

A Green History of the World

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

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

1940: Myth and reality

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

Secrecy in Britain (Historical Association Studies)

Armageddon: The Reality Behind the Distortions,: Myths, Lies, Illusions of World War II

Thirteen Days : Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War

The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth