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A Pyrotechnic History Of Humanity Episodes

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    The future

    How will we wean ourselves off fossil fuels?

  2. Fossil fuels

    Our modern comfortable way of life and how it was made possible by fossil fuels

  3. Agriculture: The solar energy revolution

    Justin Rowlatt looks at the energy revolutions that drove human history.

  4. Fire: The energy revolution

    The mastery of fire by early humans and how it transformed our metabolism