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Jared
Diamond.
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How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive.
Allen
Lane,
2005.
ISBN
0713992867.
Hardback.
592pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £20.00
In
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Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the
lessons
for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined
temples
of Angkor Wat, the long-abandoned statues of Easter Island, the
crumbling
Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? Why did the Viking settlements in
Greenland
fail while the neighbouring Inuit flourished? All saw their cultures
collapse
because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were
self-induced.
As in his celebrated global bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel,
Diamond
brings together new evidence from a startling range of sources to tell
a story with epic scope. And he lends it urgency for the modern world
by
probing the roots of decisions which allowed some societies to avoid
ecological
catastrophe, while others succumbed. How, he asks, can we learn to be
survivors?
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