A short historical past of humankind’s many apocalypses

People have endured quite a bit over the course of our existence, undoubtedly way more than can absolutely be explored within the confines of a 300ish web page e book, however Lizzie Wade’s Apocalypse: How Disaster Reworked Our World and Can Forge New Futures nonetheless paints a reasonably wealthy image of a few of the most disastrous occasions in our historical past. Going again to the demise of the Neanderthals and thru the varied civilization-collapsing forces within the tens of 1000’s of years that adopted — years-long droughts, plagues, colonialism, slavery — Wade examines the idea of the apocalypse by an archaeological lens, and makes use of all of this to place our fashionable crises into perspective.

Regardless of the subject material, it is probably not a doom-and-gloom form of e book. In any case, people are nonetheless round. As a lot as it is a story about dying and destruction, it is also about human resilience.

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