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No One Can Live on Iron

Oliver Cussen, 7 May 2026

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last Five Hundred Years 
by Sunil Amrith.
Penguin, 432 pp., £12.99, September 2025, 978 0 14 199386 7
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... extinction of species. In the Anthropocene we have to think ‘simultaneously on both registers’.Sunil Amrith’s The Burning Earth is in some ways a response to this challenge. Trained as a historian of South and South-East Asia, Amrith has spent the past decade integrating the environment into his research on ...

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