The Ecological Lessons of the Past: An Anthropology of Environmental Decline
Author(s)
Weiskel, Timothy
Abstract
All civilisations depend ultimately on the ecological viability of their agricultural base, as the environmental archaeology of ancient civilisations makes clear. Expansionist Western industrial culture, dependent on resource-depleting petroleum-based agriculture, is only different in terms of its global scale. If the lessons of the past are not heeded its collapse will also be global.
