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. 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. 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. 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. In Jared Diamonds follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in CrisisĮnvironmental 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.
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. collapse-jared-diamond Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8z96nd28 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocrconverted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocrmoduleversion 0.0.14 Pagenumberconfidence 96.80 Pages 594 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.
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