Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations – Review
This book is an excellent complement to David Key’s book on "Catastrophe", and I commonly found it a worthwhile fast widely read. It has one really large core idea that ties environmental, political, economic, and cultural readings together–it explores the inter-relationship between sustainability of any given society within the limits of the time and the authority of the government or other type of political organization. Two things come to help: long-standing vision on the position of the leader, and whatever it needs to maintain the people’s faith in their leadership. The author decides with an overview of where we stand now, and draws attention to the especially hazardous combination of overpopulation, global warming, and rapid climate changes happening all at once. For me, this book united an overview of how seriously we must take ocean currents and closely related climate changes; and how important it is that our leaders see these issues and take long-standing views that add stability and sustainability in the challenge of widely varying challenges to our well-being.