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Like Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilisations 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 cause subsequent collapse. 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 addressed in the search for solutions.
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Like Jared Diamond's Guns Germs & Steel Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment & human history. It examines world civilisations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt from Easter Island to the Roman Empire & it argues that human beings have repeatedly built societies that have grown & prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources only to expand to the point where those resources could no longer sustain the societies' populations & cause subsequent collapse. This new edition of Clive Ponting's international bestseller has been revised expanded & 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
- & the problems that have to be addressed in the search for solutions.

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Steel - An alloy made predominately of Iron combined with <2% carbon
Minute - A measurement of time, 60 seconds is equal to one minute
Human - A highly developed and adapted mamal and deminant species on earth
History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.
World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
Earth - A planet third from the sun. Similar size to Venus but rich in water and complex life.
Environment - The conditions and surrounding area.

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