In “The Earth Transformed” peterfrankopan shows both how the climate shaped modern life and how it increasingly defines the world’s economic and political tensions
, modestly subtitled: “The Present and Future of the World”. His latest book is, if anything, even more ambitious. In contrast to the study of history based on war, economics and political power , “The Earth Transformed” aims to put climate in its broadest sense at the centre of the story.
It canters through the formation of the Earth, with its shifting land masses and pop-up volcanic islands.
This is not a new field. In his study of the Mediterranean, published almost 75 years ago, Fernand Braudel, a French historian, identified geography and the environment as the bedrock layers of history. Still, “The Earth Transformed” raises fresh and urgent questions.
In these ways, bygone people and societies that had seemed mute are finding a voice. By the same token, pressure to acknowledge climate-changing sins of the past—and demands for better policies now—are becoming harder to resist.
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