So this book has three goals. The first is to reinsert climate back into the story of the past as an underlying, crucial and much overlooked theme in global history and to show where, when and how weather, long-run climate patterns and changes in climate– anthropogenic and otherwise– have had an important impact on the world. The second is to set out the story of human interaction with the natural world over millennia and to look at how our species exploited, moulded and bent the environment to its will, both for good and for ill. And the third is to expand the horizons of how we look at
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