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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...show more
Format Paperback | 589 pages
Dimensions 139.7 x 213.36 x 38.1mm | 566.99g
Publication date 04 Nov 2011
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Penguin USA
Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
Language English
Edition Revised
Edition statement Revised
Illustrations note maps, black & white plates
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