People have endured so much over the course of our existence, undoubtedly far more than can absolutely be explored within the confines of a 300ish web page e-book, however Lizzie Wade’s Apocalypse: How Disaster Reworked Our World and Can Forge New Futures nonetheless paints a fairly wealthy image of a number of the most disastrous occasions in our historical past. Going again to the demise of the Neanderthals and thru the varied civilization-collapsing forces within the tens of hundreds of years that adopted — years-long droughts, plagues, colonialism, slavery — Wade examines the idea of the apocalypse by means of an archaeological lens, and makes use of all of this to place our trendy crises into perspective.
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