Of Ice and Men: How We've Used Cold to Transform Humanity

This book explores the role that ice and the cold has played, since the outset of human civilizations. It takes the position that, in the era of climate change, ice is a substance that must be saved if we want to save life as we know it. Moreover, this book weaves a story of how ice is intertwined in the history and lives of people and it serves as a progression marker of people’s history. Dramatized with adventure and characters, this book explores how people have used ice to shape the world around them and how it has been used and incorporated into parts of people’s lives and in societies. Think of food preservation and medical uses for the cold and one will quickly realize that humans have harnessed the cold in ways that brought forth the life we know today; Knowing all this, the book explores the possibilities that ice has open up and the dependence we have grown.