UC Santa Barbara’s John Perlin to Discuss Trees and Human Civilization
'History Is Run by Forests'
Credit: Ingrid Bostrom (file)
This story first appeared in UC Santa Barbara’s The Current.
Where civilizations rise, forests flee. And where forests founder, civilizations fall.
That is the premise of “A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization” (Patagonia, 2023), a masterpiece by John Perlin, a visiting scholar in UC Santa Barbara’s physics department. Inspired by Perlin’s work, Patagonia Media partnered with the author to release an expanded and redesigned third edition.
