Earth911 Podcast: Author John Perlin Explores the Role of Trees in the Rise & Fate of Civilization
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Let’s venture into the history of https://earth911.com/inspire/infographic-reasons-why-trees-are-awesome/, wood, and the axe. Everywhere humans have gone they’ve mowed trees down to make tools, homes, fires, bridges, buildings, even railroad tracks —...
mostra másJohn is also the author of Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy and other histories of solar technology. His writing is consistently surprising and illuminating. For example, A Forest Journey challenges many current assumptions about the advantages of peoples and nations.It is a challenge to the conclusions in Jared Diamond’s influential history, Guns, Germs, and Steel. John makes a clear case that Northern Europe achieved global dominance largely on the basis of its access to vast forests that, in other parts of the world, had been chopped down during antiquity. The largely barren Mediterranean basin, for example, was heavily forested before humans entered the region. A Forest Journey is available now from Amazon and Powell's Books, as well as local bookstores. You can learn more about John Perlin at https://john-perlin.com/
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