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From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future.What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island?What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids?Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors.'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' Daily Mail'Riveting, superb, terrifying' Observer'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' Economist'This book shines like all Diamond's work' Sunday TimesJared Diamond (b. 1937) is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until recently he was Professor of Physiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies, which also is the winner of Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.
Forlag Penguin
Utgivelsesår 2011
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780241958681
EAN 9780241958681
Språk Engelsk
Sider 608
Utgave 1
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Velskrevet og relevant også for vår tid, om hvordan ressursmangel og økologiske kriser er noe som kan håndteres gjennom en samfunnskontrakt og god politisk styring, eller som kan skape krig og konflikt. Spesielt interessant om Rwanda og den malthusiske felle.
Veldig godt skrevet bok. Jeg liker spesielt hans betraktninger på hvordan alt ikke er svart eller hvitt og avgjørelser som blir tatt ikke nødvendigvis ikke er innlysende idiotiske for dem det angår.
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketThe U.S. explicitly forbids the importation of kangaroo meat because we find the beasts cute, and because a congressman's wife heard that kangaroos are endangered.
What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it? Like modern loggers, did he shout "Jobs, not trees!"? Or: "Technology will solve our problems, never fear, we'll find a substitute for wood"? Or: "We don't have proof that there aren't palms somewhere else on Easter, we need more research, your proposed ban on logging is premature and driven by fear-mongering"?
Sakprosabøker som indikerer at det er all grunn til å være pessimistisk. Kall dem gjerne faktabaserte dystopier.