New perspectives on how history is made
The Sanctified Hill disaster exposed the vulnerability of Black people to climate events due to a combination of placement and neglect.
Ecology can help substantiate historical changes that might otherwise go unnoticed.
It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).
But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.
In just two hundred thousand years, a blink compared to the 4.5 billion year history of our planet, we have become the only species whose members live mostly in cities and subsist from food produced by a minority.
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