Join Yale historian and MacArthur ‘genius’ Sunil Amrith for a paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet over the last 500 years.

Over the last five centuries humankind has brought change to every inch of the Earth. It is a story of environment and empire, of genocide and ecocide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs.

Now environmental historian Sunil Amrith joins us to share his insights into our centuries long, irreversible transformation of the planet – and ask whether humanity can now find the collective wisdom to save itself.

How did Portugese mining impact Peru? What did oil extraction do to the landscape of Central Asia? And how did the First and Second World Wars mobilize the transportation of natural resources to irreversible effect?

Find out from one of the most distinguished historians of our time. Fans of Peter Frankopan and Tim Marshall ought not to miss this chance to hear the story of planet earth as it’s never been told before.

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