‘Asian countries feel their time has come’: why the West must adapt
The best-selling historian Peter Frankopan says that the rise of Asia and rising temperatures will force the West to rethink its history and its future.
I’m sitting amid nature at its most manicured at the Botanic House restaurant in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens, talking to Oxford historian Peter Frankopan about the biggest problem in human history.
Nature is turning against us, he suggests in his latest work. It might even cure man-made climate change by itself, culling humanity with conflict, hunger, and disease after we destroyed the Eden we were given.
