The Burning Earth review: How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

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The Burning Earth review: How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

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Industrial smoke rises near New Zealand’s Kaikoura mountains

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Sunil Amrith (Allen Lane (***); W. W. Norton (US))

So much has been written about the environmental crisis that it is difficult to say anything new. It is a hard problem, but Sunil Amrith takes a good swing at it.

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at Yale University, with interests that range from migration to climate history. In The Burning Earth: An environmental history of the last 500 years, Amrith documents the ways our societies have impacted the planet over the past half-millennium, from industrial…

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