Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Narrated by:
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Michael Prichard
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Jared Diamond
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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.
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?
©2014 Jared Diamond (P)2014 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about Collapse
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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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- 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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- 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
- 2021-05-30
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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