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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... climate was thus suboptimal even in good years , compared to dairy farms at lower latitudes , both farms were susceptible to being harmed by climate change , with drought or cold being the main concerns in the districts of Huls Farm or ...
... global civilization . The environmental problems facing us today include the same eight that undermined past societies , plus four new ones : human - caused climate change , buildup of toxic chemicals in the environment , energy ...
... environmental collapse . Four of those sets of factors , environmental damage , climate change , hostile neighbors , and friendly trade partners — may or may not prove significant for a particular society . The fifth set of factors ...
... climate change , a term that today we tend to associate with global warming caused by humans . In fact , climate may become hotter or colder , wetter or drier , or more or less variable between months or between years , because of changes ...
... changes in the barbarians themselves , such that they became more numerous or better organized , acquired better weapons or more horses , or profited from climate change in the Central Asian steppes ? A Five - point Framework 13.
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 |