History through climate change

Historian Peter Frankopan traces the story of human civilisation through its impact on the biosphere

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

Author: Peter Frankopan
 

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Pages: 695

Price: Rs 850
 

Writing this review at this time, there is no shortage of headlines that attest to how the changes in earth’s living fabric wrought by human hands are coming back to bite us. Forest fires in Canada have made sure the air quality in New York rivals that of Delhi, Mexico, or Jakarta. Half a planet across in Beijing the clarion call for a new ecological civilisation sees a flurry of activity. Yet, as in many countries after the crash of 2008, the scale of