0099516683 
Paperback A new green history of the world : the environment and the collapse of great civilisations / Clive Ponting.
Publication year: 2007
Format: Paperback
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: London : Vintage,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780099516682 (pbk.) :
Notes:
Previous ed.: published as A green history of the world. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
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This study of world civilisations argues that humans have built prosperous societies by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand too much and collapse. The book argues for a realisation of the finite nature of our resources, and the impact should we continue squandering them.
Description:
x, 452 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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