The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization

Dedication Prologue: The Road to Nowhere Part 1: Wood and Human Evolution Chapter 1: Our Arboreal Inheritance Chapter 2: Coming Down from the Trees Chapter 3: Losing Our Hair Chapter 4: Tooling Up Part 2: Building Civilization Chapter 5: Clearing the Forest Chapter 6: Melting and Smelting Chapter 7: Carving Our Communities Chapter 8: Supplying Life’s Luxuries Chapter 9: Supporting Our Pretensions Chapter 10: Limiting Our Outlook Part 3: Wood in the Industrial Era Chapter 11: Replacing Firewood and Charcoal Chapter 12: Wood in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 13: Wood in the Modern World Part 4: Facing the Consequences Chapter 14: Assessing Our Impact Chapter 15: Mending Our Strained Relationship Photographs Acknowledgments About the Author Notes References Index Copyright Copyright Title Page Dedication Contents Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you? Chapter 2: Renegade perception Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’ Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit Chapter 7: War on your mind Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it? Chapter 10: Human 2.0 Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult? Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko Postscript Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation Bibliography Index Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Prologue: The Road to Nowhere Part 1: Wood and Human Evolution 1: Our Arboreal Inheritance 2: Coming Down from the Trees 3: Losing Our Hair 4: Tooling Up Part 2: Building Civilization 5: Clearing the Forest 6: Melting and Smelting 7: Carving Our Communities 8: Supplying Life’s Luxuries 9: Supporting Our Pretensions 10: Limiting Our Outlook Part 3: Wood in the Industrial Era 11: Replacing Firewood and Charcoal 12: Wood in the Nineteenth Century 13: Wood in the Modern World Part 4: Facing the Consequences 14: Assessing Our Impact 15: Mending Our Strained Relationship Picture Section Notes References Index Acknowledgments About this Book About the Author About the Publisher