This is an important work that forces readers to view history with new eyes, Clive Ponting shows in his novel A Green History of the World with 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. Not only does Ponting cover his focus well in the book, but he makes this book as to also serve as an excellent introduction to basic knowledge about geological history and ecology.
The book begins by explaining the life of man millions and millions of years ago. He explains on whan man had to do in order to survive in those times. hunt. He then travels in time to a civilization ready for agriculture and explains how it changed the history of man. He then goes into the destruction
and survival of man. First about the formual for disaster = agriculture + overpopulation. He also addresses other issues such as deforestaion. So basically if humankind does not change its pattern of self-destruction, our fate will be like that of all of the societies described above. It is clearly a choice that we as a global community must make, not as a group of individual cultures, but as a species inhabiting the same planet.
At this point Europeans begin travel and a third world is soon created. Third World nations still, by and large, produce and export only cheap, raw materials: processing and manufacturing plants are still located in the West. Increased output of raw materials does not help these countries economically because such increases lead to decreases in the value of the materials produced. In theory, free marke
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