‘Burning Earth’ review: How colonialism and industrialization caused the climate crisis

Burning Earth
Sunil Amrith (Allen Lane (UK), WW Norton (US))

So much has already been written about the environmental crisis that it’s hard to say anything new. It’s a tricky subject, but one that Sunil Amrit tackles well.

He is a historian at Yale University with interests ranging from migration to climate history. Burning Earth: Environmental History of the Last 500 YearsAmrith documents the impact our society has had on the planet over the past half century, since the Industrial Revolution…