Green History of the World

* Book: Clive Ponting. Green History of the World. Penguin / Random House. 1991 (revised and expanded in 2007)

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Republished as A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations.

Review

Michael Dowd: "this 464-page book is so essential for understanding our past, present, and likely futures"

More information

• syntheses/overviews freely available in text format online. in mp3 audio format:
  • "A Synopsis of Clive Ponting's (1991) Green History of the World" (by Martin Desvaux) - 56-page PDF [1]
  • "Summary of Clive Ponting's (2007) A New Green History of the World" (by Robert Riversong) - blogpost [2]