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Jared, Diamond.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed [Текст] / Diamond Jared, Revised Edition. - United States
of America : Penguin Books, 2011. - 608 p. -
ISBN
978-0143117001 : Б. ц.
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Аннотация: 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. Diamond is
also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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.
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