3/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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3/8: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Transformed-Untold-History/dp/0525659161/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Niño to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us.
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| 0:00.0 | 4.56 million dollars! |
| 0:03.2 | 456 real contestants. |
| 0:06.0 | But there can only be one winner. |
| 0:08.5 | Eliminated. |
| 0:09.5 | The biggest Netflix show ever's big reality competition series. |
| 0:18.0 | I will absolutely double cross you. |
| 0:20.0 | Outshine the competition. |
| 0:22.6 | This is the same. |
| 0:23.6 | Steal the show. |
| 0:24.9 | Squid game, the challenge. |
| 0:26.5 | The real game begins, now streaming only on Netflix. This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor of Professor Frank-Frank- |
| 0:39.8 | Peter Frankapan, Oxford and Worcester College Professor of Global History. |
| 0:45.2 | We're now in the Roman warm period, which is a delight because I've done so much of my reading |
| 0:50.7 | most recently about all of the Game of Thrones played around Rome and |
| 0:56.0 | and throughout the Mediterranean world and now to discover it again as |
| 1:00.4 | reacting to and dealing with and getting lucky about climate is a joy. |
| 1:06.0 | Peter, you've already mentioned Cleopatra who steals the scenes, but the Romans have an important |
| 1:12.0 | philosophical approach to |
| 1:14.1 | ecology, to nature. They want to live in harmony with it at the same time |
| 1:19.5 | they want to take advantage of it to spread their empire |
| 1:24.3 | the Romans from the what you present Peter looked to be lucky is that too is that too |
| 1:29.7 | much to take away from their achievements they were they were at the right place at the right time in the right |
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