\"Dirt\" by David Montgomery (Non-Fiction)

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Full-length Audiobook (available at (Website hidden)) Educational, highly informative, historical and scientific discussion on soil erosion and its effect on global civilizations.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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common sense and hindsight can provide useful perspective on past experience. Civilisations don't disappear overnight. They don't choose to fail. More often, they falter and then decline as their soil disappears over generations. Although historians are prone to credit the end of civilizations to discrete events like climate changes, wars or natural disasters, the effects of soil erosion on ancient societies were profound. Go look for yourself. The story is out there in the dirt.