Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised EditionIn 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. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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... Pitcairn Islands , and Easter Island 84-85 The Pitcairn Islands 122 Anasazi Sites 142 Maya Sites 161 The Viking Expansion 182-183 Contemporary Hispaniola 331 361 Contemporary China Contemporary Australia 386 Political Trouble Spots of ...
... PITCAIRN ISLAND 165 THE WORLD PREHISTORIC , HISTORIC , AND MODERN SOCIETIES ICELAND. Arctic Ocean GREENLAND North AMERICA Atlantic HISPANIOLA MAYA Pacific Ocean ΤικοΡΙΑ MOCHE , PERU SOUTH AMERICA EASTER ISLAND 0 Miles 2000 4000 0 ...
... Pitcairn Islanders , and other societies . The last set of factors in my five - point framework involves the ubiquitous question of the society's responses to its problems , whether those problems are environmental or not . Different ...
... future studies . Barry Rolett's and my comparative analysis helps us understand why Easter , of all Pacific islands , suffered such a severe collapse . Pitcairn Island and Henderson Island ( Chapter 3 ) , 20 A Tale of Two Farms.
... Pitcairn and Henderson islands suffered local environmental damage , but the fatal blow came from the environmentally triggered collapse of their major trade partner . There were no known complicating effects of hostile neighbors or of ...
Contents
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Twilight at Easter | 79 |
The Last People Alive Pitcairn and Henderson Islands | 120 |
The Ancient Ones The Anasazi and Their Neighbors | 136 |
The Maya Collapses | 157 |
The Viking Prelude and Fugues | 178 |
Norse Greenlands Flowering | 211 |
Norse Greenlands End | 248 |
China Lurching Giant | 358 |
Mining Australia | 378 |
Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous | 419 |
Big Businesses and the Environment | 441 |
The World as a Polder What Does It All Mean | 486 |
Angkors Rise and Fall | 526 |
Acknowledgments | 540 |
Index | 575 |
Opposite Paths to Success | 277 |
Malthus in Africa Rwandas Genocide | 311 |
One Island Two Peoples Two Histories | 329 |
Illustration Credits | 590 |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition Jared Diamond Limited preview - 2011 |