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363 | Peter Frankopan: How a Transforming Earth & a Rising Asia Will Define the 21st Century

The Realignment

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The Intersection of Environmental Policy and History and Science

When you look back at these previous societies who were racked by environmental change, to what degree were their challenges insurmountable because of some, let's say, Maya culture war. What was there like a Maya culture war that we have to separate from, wow, they really should have not used that fertilizer and then that caused props to collapse? But how would we think about that? Okay, so I mean, it's such a great question and it's the perfect example, actually,. The Germans shutting their nuclear power plots, which they shut in the middle of April of this year. And deforestation, people in the deep past 3000 years ago, 4000 years ago, realized that when you chop

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