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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) (Reprint Edition) by Professor J. R. Mcneill, John Robert Mcneill, Paul M. Kennedy, Jr Mcneill Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-393-32183-5 / 0393321835 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32183-8 / 9780393321838 Humanity has consumed 10 times more energy since 1900 than in the previous thousand years. John McNeill will probably not appreciate reviewers pointing out this crude, back-of-an-envelope calculation of his, but I suspect he will have to get used to it. It is an extraordinary statistic, and one that |