WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Something New Under the Sun

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Something New Under the Sun:

Here's another likely candidate for my reading list -- Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the World in the 20th Century:

Humanity has consumed 10 times more energy since 1900 than in the previous thousand years. John McNeill will probably not appreciate reviewers pointing out this crude, back-of-an-envelope calculation of his, but I suspect he will have to get used to it. It is an extraordinary statistic, and one that should give all who care about the future of our planet pause for thought. People also move more rock and earth around the world than wind, glaciers, mountain-building processes or volcanoes. Only water remains a more effective agent of erosion--just. So numerous and powerful have people become in the twentieth century that we now collectively rank as a geological process.