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Deforesting the Earth (Paperback, Abridged edition)
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Deforesting the Earth (Paperback, Abridged edition)
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"Anyone who doubts the power of history to inform the present
should read this closely argued and sweeping survey. This is rich,
timely, and sobering historical fare written in a measured,
non-sensationalist style by a master of his craft. One only hopes
(almost certainly vainly) that today's policymakers take its
lessons to heart."--Brian Fagan, "Los Angeles"" Times"
Published in 2002, "Deforesting the Earth "was a landmark study of
the history and geography of deforestation. Now available as an
abridgment, this edition retains the breadth of the original while
rendering its arguments accessible to a general readership.
Deforestation--the thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of
forests for fuel, shelter, and agriculture--is among the most
important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying
ten thousand years to trace human-induced deforestation's effect on
economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, "Deforesting
the Earth "is the preeminent history of this process and its
consequences.
Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age to
Europe, North America, and the tropics, Michael Williams traces the
impact of human-set fires for gathering and hunting, land clearing
for agriculture, and other activities from the Paleolithic age
through the classical world and the medieval period. He then
focuses on forest clearing both within Europe and by European
imperialists and industrialists abroad, from the 1500s to the early
1900s, in such places as the New World, India, and Latin America,
and considers indigenous clearing in India, China, and Japan.
Finally, he covers the current alarming escalation of
deforestation, with ourever-increasing human population placing a
potentially unsupportable burden on the world's forests.
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