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A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations Clive Ponting
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Maya history--and the civilization's "collapse"--continue to occupy the minds of archeologists. The more we look back at real climate history the better. All those previous collapses were local or regional; elsewhere, other societies and civilizations persisted unaffected. Some research points to a series of droughts as playing an important role in the Maya demise. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. Sometimes, as in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, new civilizations rose in succession. €�It's Global Warming, Stupid! A new, ultra-detailed climate record from a cave in Belize reveals Classic Maya civilization collapsed over centuries as rain dried up, disrupting agriculture and causing instability that led to wars and the crumbling of large cities. Moreover, by temporarily disabling New York City – one of the great financial and cultural capitals of the world – the storm seemed to jolt many out of denial. One study of resilience to climate change found that, in addition to wealth, resilience depends on “environmental capacity” – the integrity of ecosystems – as well as on “civic and human resources” – the health, education, and economic capacity of a society's citizens. Fagan's book examines other nasty ancient droughts and how they laid waste to some of the world's great empires, from the Maya in Central America to the Khmer in Cambodia. A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Yes they are preparing the "ignorant masses" (as you put it) for the New World Order. But we also know, from the new field of Epigenetics, that the expression of our DNA--which determines how those cells are built as well as the direction of human evolution--is entirely controlled by our external environment. Williams (1973) Utilitarianism. €�The dry spells of a thousand years ago spanned not years, but generations, anthropologist Brian Fagan writes in his 2008 book, The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. (1971) A Theory of Justice (revised edition). 2The concept of sustainable A Green History Of TheWorld. Otherwise, it would be impossible to link environmental and natural resources issues with all the other societal challenges we simultaneously have to cope with in today's world.