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Once a great city in one of the world's earliest civilizations, it first thrived thanks to abundant rainfall and then suffered even more severely when the Indian Ocean monsoons shifted southward, changing rain patterns. By 2000 B.C. its agricultural economy had collapsed, and today it is an abandoned landscape, an assemblage of decaying shrines in the harshest of deserts. Fagan views this event as pivotal. It was, he writes, "the first time an entire city disintegrated in the face of environmental catastrophe." But not, Fagan notes, the last.

In his epilogue, which covers the last 800 years of human history, Fagan explores the climatic upheavals that left 20 million dead in famine-related epidemics in the 19th century. He notes that today 200 million people barely survive on marginal agricultural land in places such as northeastern Brazil, Ethiopia, and the Saharan Sahel. If temperatures rise much above current levels, and rising seas flood coastal plains, the devastation could dwarf any disaster humankind has previously known. Fagan doesn't offer easy solutions, but he presents a compelling history of climate's role in the background--and sometimes foreground--of human history. --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 5 0 false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Apr 13 19:54:27 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:57:12 -0800 2009 summer of the human species.In The Long ...more...]]> 74422108 2444790 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 4 0 false Tue Oct 13 13:30:06 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 13:31:17 -0700 2009 43611929 1438003 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 5 0 false Mon Jan 19 13:52:31 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 12:22:30 -0800 2009 21859636 1130606 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 5 0 false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu May 08 10:04:59 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 10:06:09 -0700 2008 8340797 563257 177251 1862077517 9781862077515 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172446789m/177251.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172446789s/177251.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177251.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57
Once a great city in one of the world's earliest civilizations, it first thrived thanks to abundant rainfall and then suffered even more severely when the Indian Ocean monsoons shifted southward, changing rain patterns. By 2000 B.C. its agricultural economy had collapsed, and today it is an abandoned landscape, an assemblage of decaying shrines in the harshest of deserts. Fagan views this event as pivotal. It was, he writes, "the first time an entire city disintegrated in the face of environmental catastrophe." But not, Fagan notes, the last.

In his epilogue, which covers the last 800 years of human history, Fagan explores the climatic upheavals that left 20 million dead in famine-related epidemics in the 19th century. He notes that today 200 million people barely survive on marginal agricultural land in places such as northeastern Brazil, Ethiopia, and the Saharan Sahel. If temperatures rise much above current levels, and rising seas flood coastal plains, the devastation could dwarf any disaster humankind has previously known. Fagan doesn't offer easy solutions, but he presents a compelling history of climate's role in the background--and sometimes foreground--of human history. --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 4 0 false Sun Oct 28 03:58:44 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 03:59:17 -0700 2007 Review at Resolute Reader ]]> 10913258 297102 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 23 09:04:28 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 24 19:23:29 -0800 2008 37727647 846793 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 1 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 11:21:10 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 12:12:06 -0800 2008 16112142 370961 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 3 0 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 13:44:49 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 08:16:17 -0800 2008 82259377 1849261 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 0 0 false Sun Dec 27 22:43:47 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 27 22:44:07 -0800 2009 81500827 2937157 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 3 0 false Sat Dec 19 13:38:24 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 13:38:24 -0800 2009 81101284 3046055 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 5 0 false Tue Dec 15 11:30:06 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 28 12:31:00 -0800 2009 80260869 2848781 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 1 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 07 22:44:19 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 22:44:32 -0800 2009 79467607 1808452 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 17:39:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 17:39:59 -0800 2009 78716111 2972576 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 0 0 false Mon Nov 23 02:33:14 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 02:33:14 -0800 2009 77564159 2919331 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 0 0 false Thu Nov 12 11:44:24 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 11:44:24 -0800 2009 77038984 1857211 841213 0465022820 9780465022823 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131m/841213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178822131s/841213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841213.The_Long_Summer_How_Climate_Changed_Civilization 3.77 57 --Keith Moerer]]> 2003 0 0 false Sat Nov 07 15:22:15 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 15:22:19 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=841213