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When the Dutch agreed to let the British keep New York in 1667, it was in exchange for Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) and its then more valuable sugar plantations.
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes
The last supervolcano eruption on Earth was at Toba, in northern Sumatra, seventy-four thousand years ago. No one knows quite how big it was other than that it was a whopper. Greenland ice cores show that the Toba blast was followed by at least six years of “volcanic winter” and goodness knows how many poor growing seasons after that. The event, it is thought, may have carried humans right to the brink
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
The battle lines are well drawn: the microbes' genetic simplicity and evolutionary swiftness against our intellect, creativity, and collective social and political will. We cannot overwhelm the pathogens, because they so vastly outnumber and outmaneuver us. Our survival depends on outsmarting them.
Deadliest Enemy
Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
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