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- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
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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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- Bruce Lockhart
- 2023-01-21
Incredibly interesting and well presented book
Well written, researched with thoughtful and far reaching insights into societies and interactive human leadership and perspectives
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- Derek
- 2020-04-25
Ought to be a textbook
This book was written in 2005 so obviously it’s a bit dated, but no less relevant.
Considering how many people want to “leave Earth to live on Mars” I would say this book is more relevant than ever.
Jared Diamond is so careful to be objective and look at all factors. He’s not left wing or right wing. He gives credit where credit is due to NGOs and big business alike and offers warnings... a lot of warnings. I hope this book is a wake up call for individuals, CEOs, and politicians.
I hope this book is made mandatory reading for social studies classes in high school.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-02-06
Bitterroot Valley for the win
Great book, wonderful production. Highly recommend. should be listened to at 1.20 speed however. Learned a lot.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-05-30
LOVED IT!
extremely well thought out and put together. enables a very well rounded, mostly objective, yet nuanced view on our world and its environment.
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- Karuci
- 2024-03-04
Stale green propaganda
The solution to environmental problems is not to have the life he himself has. Also, we would have enjoyed our planet much more had there been no humans at all!
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