Now Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the 1997 best-seller Guns, Germs and Steel has given us a provocative and fascinating history lesson in what could happen, even to our technologically advanced society, should we fail to learn from and apply the lessons of past failed societies. Pentagon are all calling for something to be done to avert the onrushing threat of global warming, among other dire threats. Today, all the mainstream of scientific organizations, notable corporate CEOs, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and even the U.S. Jared Diamond: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking, 2005)įor decades, environmentalists who warned of impending disasters were dismissed as extremists and alarmists.
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