Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive.

“A rich survey of the past.” ―Nature

Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the Maya, some of history’s mightiest civilizations have been felled by pestilence and glacial melt and dr...