Something New Jewelry Cleaner
Most science writing nowadays must be interdisciplinary; able to use
empirical evidence and relevant concepts, theories, and conclusions from
vastly different fields of enquiry. Would you expect the same of a
history book? Although this book's publishing category is
science/environment it really should be history. The author says as
much. This is "a history of - and for - environmentally tumultuous
times". And that history is broad. From the ancient days when the book
of Ecclesiastes was written to our modern era of Nobel Prize winning
physicists, there has been a remarkable common conception of our planet
as immutable and infinite. In contrast to the biblical gentleman who
said there was nothing new under the sun, or physicist Robert Millikan
who saw Earth's vastness as effectively shielding it from real harm from
humanity, J R McNeill sees SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN and it's simply
that "the place of humankind within the natural world is not what it
was."
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