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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed

What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us.

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  • "Collapse how societies choose to fail or survive"@en
  • "Runtuhnya peradaban-peradaban dunia"
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  • "In 'Collapse', 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?"
  • "Who Hasn't Gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Jared Diamond--whose Guns, Germs, and Steel revolutionized our understanding of history--explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapses, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana. What emerges is a fundamental pattern of environmental catastrophe--one whose warning signs surround us today and that we ignore at our peril. Blending the most recent scientific advances and a vast historical perspective into a narrative that is impossible to put down, Collapse exposes the deepest mysteries of the past even as it offers hope for the future. --"
  • "What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us."@en
  • "What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals our environment gives us."
  • ""Essential reading ... Collapse [shows] that resilient societies are nimble ones, capable of long-term planning and of abandoning deeply entrenched but ultimately destructive core values and beliefs." --"
  • ""A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's also the deal of the year--the equivalent of a year's college course by an engaging, brilliant professor, all for the price of a book." --"
  • "-- Guns, Germs and Steel -- Guns, Germs, and Steel -- Collapse"
  • ""Extremely persuasive ... replete with fascinating stories, a treasure trove of historical anecdotes [and] haunting statistics." --"
  • "Explores the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future."@en
  • ""Diamond's most influential gift may be his ability to write about geopolitical and environmental systems in ways that don't just educate and provoke, but entertain." --"
  • ""Extraordinarily panoramic ...Diamond's complex historical web of how human communities either master their environment or become victims of them ... takes a lifetime of research and, in normal English, leads the reader painstakingly where the media and intellectual journals have often refused to go." --Book Jacket."
  • "Who hasn't gazed upon the abandoned temples of Angkor Wat or the jungle-choked cities of the Maya and wondered, could the same fate happen to us? In this riveting book, Diamond explores how humankind's use and abuse of the environment reveal the truth behind the world's great collapse, from the Anasazi of North America to the Vikings of Greenland to modern Montana."@en
  • "In 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 Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves 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. 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'"@en
  • ""There are hopeful messages in Collapse. With Diamond's help, maybe we'll learn to see our problems a little more clearly before we chop down that last palm tree." --"
  • "Aan de hand van vele voorbeelden uit verschillende culturen in heden en verleden zoekt de auteur antwoord op de vraag waarom sommige culturen ten onder gaan en andere zich kunnen handhaven."

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  • "Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed"@en
  • "Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed"
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  • "Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"
  • "Collapse : how societies chose to fail or succeed"@en
  • "Collapse, how societies choose to fail or succeed"@en
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  • "Collapse how societies choose to fail or succeed"@en
  • "Collapse : runtuhnya peradaban-peradaban dunia"
  • "Collapse, how societies choose to fail or survive"
  • "Ondergang : waarom zijn sommige beschavingen verdwenen en hoe kan de onze haar ondergang voorkomen?"
  • "Collapse : how societies choose to fail or survive"@en
  • "Collapse : how societies choose to fail or survive"
  • "Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"@en
  • "Ondergang : waarom zijn sommige beschavingen verdwenen en hoe kan de onze haar ondergang voorkomen ?"

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