{"id":260936,"date":"2024-09-26T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/the-burning-earth-review-how-colonialism-and-industrialisation-fuelled-the-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:07","slug":"the-burning-earth-review-how-colonialism-and-industrialisation-fuelled-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/26\/the-burning-earth-review-how-colonialism-and-industrialisation-fuelled-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burning Earth review: How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Industrial smoke rises near New Zealand\u2019s Kaikoura mountains<\/p>\n

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The Burning Earth<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
Sunil Amrith (Allen Lane (UK); W. W. Norton (US))<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He is a historian<\/a> at Yale University, with interests that range from migration to climate history. In The Burning Earth: An environmental history of the last 500 years<\/i>, Amrith documents the ways our societies have impacted the planet over the past half-millennium, from industrial\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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