The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I eventually bought this book because of the History Channel Special about the Little Ice Age. I was apparently hoping the book would have been a little longer, but I enjoyed every minute of simply reading it. While I don’t believe humanity usually caused Global Warming. I believe individual activity involves the environment. Heck! A beaver dam moves an environment. I do not believe the Earth is so fragile that simply adding CO2 to the atmosphere will destroy it. It might kill us, but the Earth will continue. And the results of the climate on us is something we should all be interested in. In college, they previously taught about the socialogical sources of history. The climate? At best, it was a footnote–stage dressing for the pageant that was displayed for our education. It was never considered a cause for events, but Fagan well demonstrates that it was a cause for some of the crucial events in history. I would have liked a mostly bit more. The book is a mostly bit thin, and occasionally, Fagan gets preachy, but this book is a keeper!