Collection of chapters written by around 30 authors. The book deals with history, different historical periods and significant events and attempts to connect it with its primary theme — climate change. Some chapters are interesting some seems artificial and almost all of them ends with more or less similar way - [Chapter name] may be related to climate change and more research should be done.
Book covers prehistory and describes how climate change made people to migrate. Describes concrete places, proofs and methods how we gathered knowledge about it. Then moves into ancient history with interesting chapter about egypt and continues with middle ages where I found most interesting link between climate change and different epidemics, early modern era and even touches contemporary period with a short discussion of a future.
Even though it was not fun to read, It expanded my knowledge and the way how I look at the climate change now. Its not something new, in fact I now know that it was ongoing for the whole time-being. There were known points when climate was extraordinarily unfavorable and when it was extraordinarily favorable. This periods were usually not straightforward though.
Also I liked the chapter that was describing the way how certain civilizations were able to adapt or just completely failed. Black Death, Plague, famine, spanish flu these all seems to happen under some conditions that must been met. This makes me wonder if we are now better prepared since we now live in globalized world. Looking back at when covid outbreak happened, apart from strange time when there was curfew at almost every country at some point, the only thing that we felt was higher inflation.