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How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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Von: Jared Diamond
Gesprochen von: Michael Prichard
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 In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?

As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving 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, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. 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?

Look out for Jared Diamond's latest book, The World Until Yesterday, coming from Viking in January 2013.

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"Mr. Diamond...is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readiily accesible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling." —The New York Times

"...Collapse is a magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm." —Businessweek

"Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care." —Gregg Easterbrook, The New York Times Book Review
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Although already a bit dated I recommend this book to anyone who's interested to find out about the intricacies of environment, resources, civilisational flourishing and collaps.
It's not too late to learn what Jared has to teach us.

Still the most comprehensive account out there

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After "Guns, Germs and Steel" another entertaining, yet very informative book on our social history as humans. Definitely recommended!

Informative and inspiring

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J. Diamond is a great writer, and the content is rich and diversified.
The author is balanced in his views, and presents multiple views on every topic. Really great stuff!

Great book, great speaker...best I've listened to

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In this successor to "Guns, germs and steel" in which he depicted civilizations as repeated games on human populations, Jared Diamond focuses in this book on the rules of the games. These consist of mutual influences like aggressive neighbors and trade flows, external factors like climate change and environmental influences as well as self inflicted elements. Jared Diamond claims that in particular the latter are the more treacherous onces as their non linear effects are more difficult to predict when the trespassing of their critical points lead to catastrophic changes within a couple of generations.

In spite of its inspiring argumentation, the book does not reach the "eureka" moment of the first book and only classifies the rules that were already implied in the previous work. But I feel guilty to boost with knowledge that is not my own, but for which the author of this book was my inspiration. As such, I would recommend this book as a second go for a splendid bottle of wine of the same millesime: an additional moment to enjoy and an acknowledgment that indeed it is a good wine.

The rules of the game

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Was hat Ihnen das Hörerlebnis von Collapse besonders unterhaltsam gemacht?

Good explanations of difficult topics supported by lots of interesting facts

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Sometimes a little too detailed and the author tends to reiterate his favorite points a little too oftern.

Very interesting but certainly not easy listening

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