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What to read this weekend: A brief history of humankind's many apocalypses
This week, we read Lizzie Wade's Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures, and the Dark Horse miniseries, Behemoth.
This week, we read Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures, a compelling new history book by science journalist Lizzie Wade, and Behemoth, a riveting mini-series for Dark Horse that explores the classic idea of a kaiju attack from a horrifying... inside perspective. Humans have endured a lot over the course of our existence, undoubtedly much more than can fully be explored in the confines of a 300ish page book, but Lizzie Wade's Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures still paints a pretty rich picture of some of the most disastrous events in our history. Going back to the demise of the Neanderthals and through the various civilization-collapsing forces in the tens of thousands of years that followed — years-long droughts, plagues, colonialism, slavery — Wade examines the concept of the apocalypse through an archaeological lens, and uses all of this to put our modern crises into perspective.
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