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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Societal fates intertwined with environmental choices.

If you're intrigued by the intricacies of historical success and failure, "Collapse" by Jared Diamond might be the book that keeps you up at night. Through gripping tales of past societies, Diamond explores the decisions that led to their downfall and invites us to apply these lessons today. Not only is it a fascinating journey through history, but it's also a crucial warning and a call to action to prevent repeating the mistakes that led to ecological disasters.

  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2006)
  • California Book Award for Nonfiction (Silver) (2005)
  • Prix du livre sur l'environnement (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
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ISBN: 9780143036555
Authors: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. (London)
Date of Publication: 2005-12-27
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Economics, Science, Sociology, History
Related Topics: Economics, History, Sociology, World History, Politics, Anthropology, Nature, Society, Social Science
Goodreads rating: 3.94
(rated by 74817 readers)

Description

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? In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves a global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving 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, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. 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.
 

Societal fates intertwined with environmental choices.

If you're intrigued by the intricacies of historical success and failure, "Collapse" by Jared Diamond might be the book that keeps you up at night. Through gripping tales of past societies, Diamond explores the decisions that led to their downfall and invites us to apply these lessons today. Not only is it a fascinating journey through history, but it's also a crucial warning and a call to action to prevent repeating the mistakes that led to ecological disasters.

  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2006)
  • California Book Award for Nonfiction (Silver) (2005)
  • Prix du livre sur l'environnement (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.