Nature is vital to our very being

Amongst other things

and then to Mexico City

Poet Eileen Myles

To marry with its shape

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years indigenous voices Nature is vital to ourIn this paradigm shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central