![]() ![]() Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?īringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. ![]() ![]() What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? One of them is the issue of climate, and. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. The Anasazi collapse and other south- western collapses offer us not only a gripping story but also an instructive one for the purposes of this book. What can we learn from history In 2005, I published Collapse, and in that book I cited 12 environmental problems. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail Or Succeed Author: Jared Diamond Published in New York, 2005 Pages: 570 Summary: This book follows the events of several civilizations from the past and present, and how they either failed or succeeded to survive. From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. ![]()
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