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After several years of research, bestselling author Michael Crichton concluded that global warming was little more than hot air. His dramatic and persuasive conclusions form the basis of his novel, State of Fear.
In The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, author Steve Bonta examines the lessons of the growth and decline of the Roman state in the centuries before the Empire.
Oxford historian Peter Heather has reexamined the fall of Rome. His 2006 book, The Fall of the Roman Empire, holds many lessons for today.
By now everyone knows, or thinks that they know, that humanity is destroying the environment. We are running out of fresh water; agricultural crops have reached the limits of productivity; the forests are being clear-cut; the human population is exploding; the ozone hole threatens everyone with cancer; and mankind’s use of fossil fuels has pumped the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing runaway global warming.
