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Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed

By: Penguin Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)


Product Info

Title
Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Jared Diamond
Publish Year
2011
Pages
584
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x1.5"
NKG Part #
2148161251
Type
Softcover

Description

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.