The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Peter Frankopan torrent

Category: History, Science
Language: English
Keywords: Climate Change Environment Science Science & Engineering

Written by Peter Frankopan
Read by Peter Frankopan
Format: M4B
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author/Narrator)
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 29 hrs 11 mins, Retail
Overview: A 2023 highlight for BBC News, Sunday Times Culture, Financial Times, New European, Guardian, New Statesman, The Times, The Week, Waterstones, Blackwell’s

Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, and the most devastating droughts.

In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan shows that engagement with the natural world and with climatic change and their effects on us are not new: exploring, for instance, the development of religion and language and their relationships with the environment; tracing how growing demands for harvests resulted in the increased shipment of enslaved peoples; scrutinising how the desire to centralise agricultural surplus formed the origins of the bureaucratic state; and seeing how efforts to understand and manipulate the weather have a long and deep history. Understanding how past shifts in natural patterns have shaped history, and how our own species has shaped terrestrial, marine and atmospheric conditions is not just important but essential at a time of growing awareness of the severity of the climate crisis.

Taking us from the Big Bang to the present day, The Earth Transformed forces us to reckon with humankind’s continuing efforts to make sense of the natural world.