Wood and the Construction of Civilization

Timber harvest stoked revolutionary passion in the early colonies; cheap wood pulp enabled yellow journalism; replaced by iron and steel during the Industrial Age, wood is now transforming modern construction capabilities. We could tell human history through our use of wood. Guest: Roland Ennos, Visiting Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Hull, and author of "The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization"