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9 7. On ancient Mesopotamia, see Clive Ponting, A Green History of the World: The
Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations (New York: Penguin, 1991),
68-73; on the Maya in the Yucatan, see Ponting, 78-83 and Jared Diamond,
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Penguin,
2 0 0 6), 157-17 7.
98. I refer to the fate of the Tasmanians after being rounded up and imprisoned
on Flinders Island; see Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's
Founding , (New York: Knopf, 1987), 423.
99. Michael Wines, “An Ailing Russia Lives a Tough Life hat's Geting Shorter,”
New York Times , December 3, 2000, htp://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/
world/an-ailing-russia-lives-a-tough-life-that-s-geting-shorter.
html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.
100. See, for example, he Others , directed by Alejandro Amenábar, 2001.
101. See Stephan Faris, Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the
Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley (New York: Holt, 2009), 5-29.
102. Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate
Change (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006), 13-17.
103. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time , translated by John Macquarrie and
Edward Robinson (London: SCM Press, 1962), 279-311.
104. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais , lines 187-189. See Donald H. Reiman and
Neil Fraistat, editors, Shelley's Poetry and Prose , second edition (New York:
Norton, 2002), 417.