New info on Kenneth Hsu:
CLIMATE MAKES HISTORY
The history of mankind as a reflection of climatic evolution
KENNETH J HSU
Orell Fussli Publishers (Zurich)
On sale 17th Oct 2000 in German as:
KLIMA MACHT GESCHICHTE
Menschheitsgeschichte als Abbild der Klimaentwicklung
Translation of back cover German text:
Why was there a mass exodus of the Germanic peoples? How were the Slavs able
to penetrate the Balkans and Northern Germany? What were the origins of the
Christianisation of the East? The history of mankind leaves many fascinating
questions unanswered. The renowned palaeoclimatologist and geologist,
Kenneth J. Hsu, has applied himself to these questions in a new and unusual
way. His theory is that the chronicle of the history of our civilization is
an expression of the climatic changes that have taken place over the last
5000 years, and that it is possible to use the patterns of climatic changes
of the past to predict those of the future. Historically, global
temperatures have changed by only one or two degrees on average, but with
terrible consequences. Global cooling meant that food supplies fell below
subsistence level, which led to mass exoduses of people in search of a
‘place in the sun’. Hsu’s investigation unearths many astonishing parallels
between the European and Asiatic civilizations. It is the history of
mankind, clearly and excitingly written from a new perspective.
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