It is a book of facts and paradoxes, but there is a moral in her. Text connects cultural history of natural resources with the global history seen in the Russian prospect. World history began in the deserts, but this book anymore talks about bogs. History requires acting persons, but here peat and hemp, sugar and iron, fur and oil talk and operate. An unevenness of accessible resources was a trade engine, and she conducted to to the accumulation of riches, height of inequality and increase of evil. At the different types of raw material are different political properties, and they generated different social institutes. Therefore raw material dependences rarely changed each other without wars and revolutions. None of these crises disappeared for nothing, they conduced to the dramatic changes as between labour, raw material and state. On the threshold of climatic catastrophe in the fight of people for distinction of good and evils nature was included. Our world is a result of her temporal unity with a man. And one time changing him was not succeeded, necessary to understand how he is arranged.