Historian Peter Frankopan on empires, waste – and why people think they can do whatever they want with natural resources.
Peter Frankopan teaches history at Oxford, but his latest book, Between Earth and Sky, moves beyond the conventional boundaries of his discipline. The protagonists are not kings and generals, but the climate, which in Frankopan’s opinion influenced the fate of mankind much more than previously assumed – and which is now being changed by man as never before. With an uncertain outcome.