A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

The world did not exist as we know it now. The times seen as beginning and end have never been separated. From drops to seas, from seas to land, from soil to nature, and from nature to all living creatures on this planet, by progressing, changing shape, collapsing, and at the same time being preserved, it brought us to the time we are now.

The modern world of the 21st century, the information technologies we use, and the nation-states we live in have emerged over a long period in the past when the climate was favorable. All the systems we have established from the past to the present have become unable to maintain their continuity. Sea level is rising, climate change is increasing, and our world continues to warm very rapidly.

In the light of all these situations, it is not known exactly what awaits humanity in the next stage, while on the other hand, our actions that have been going on for centuries, the data we have obtained with new technologies, and the systems we try to maintain their functionality can be fully predicted.

"World History Through Seven Cheap Things" by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, describes how we got to the situation we are in today in a world where predicting the end of the planet is easier than predicting the end of capitalism, and how an order trying to move forward with systems that can no longer be maintained can be made fairer and more sustainable.

"History of the World through Seven Cheap Things" is a study that aims to understand what needs to be changed for sustainability in the 21st-century life, by what factors and by whom these "things" are turned into things, and what awaits this world in the future. In this book, you will see how the modern world came about with seven cheap things: nature, money, labor, care, food, energy, and life.