{"id":22689,"date":"2023-03-07T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=225342"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:35:18","slug":"volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcanoes &#038; nuclear armageddon: humanity\u2019s long relationship with nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Peter Frankopan unpicks humanity\u2019s complex relationship with climate across the millennia <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 07 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>For thousands of years, humans have been in thrall to climate \u2013 it has dictated the crops we grow, the water we drink and even the diseases to which we might succumb. Rhiannon Davies speaks to Peter Frankopan about his new book that examines this crucial relationship, <em>The Earth Transformed<\/em>, to explore whether lessons from the past might help us navigate a potentially frightening future.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-225342-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/03\/volcanoesandnucleararmageddon-b7d3dd8.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/03\/volcanoesandnucleararmageddon-b7d3dd8.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/03\/volcanoesandnucleararmageddon-b7d3dd8.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Peter Frankopan is the author of <em>The Earth Transformed: An Untold History<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-earth-transformed-an-untold-history-professor-peter-frankopan\/7098886?ean=9781526622563&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dress-Diary-Mrs-Anne-Sykes\/dp\/178474381X\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-earth-transformed\/peter-frankopan\/9781526622563&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Peter Frankopan unpicks humanity\u2019s complex relationship with climate across the millennia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":22690,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/03\/volcanoes-nuclear-armageddon-humanitys-long-relationship-with-nature.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Peter Frankopan unpicks humanity\u2019s complex relationship with climate across the millennia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/22689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}