Title: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780143117001
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Pages: 608
Extension: EPUB
Size: 674 KB
Subjects: Environmental Policy, Ecology, Social Science, Historical Geography, Nature, General, Civilization, Sociology, Political Science, Social History, World, Public Policy, History
Categories: History, Science & Technology, Current Affairs & Politics, Awards, Social Sciences, World History, Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Politics, Sociology, Civilization - History, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental Policy, Social Structure & Social Change, Social & Cultural History, Civilization - General & Miscellaneous, Environmental Conservation & Protection Policy, General & Miscellaneous Environmental Policies, Social Change, Social History - General & Miscellaneous, Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2005, New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2005
In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
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