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Author(s): Jared Diamond
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Year: 2005
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ISBN 10:         0143117009
ISBN 13: 978-0143117001
Author:          Jared Diamond

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?

Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: Modern Montana

  • Chapter 1: Under Montana’s Big Sky 27
    • Stan Falkow’s story
    • Montana and me
    • Why begin with Montana?
    • Montana’s economic history
    • Mining
    • Forests
    • Soil
    • Water
    • Native and non-native species
    • Differing visions
    • Attitudes towards regulation
    • Rick Laible’s story
    • Chip Pigman’s story
    • Tim Huls’s story
    • John Cook’s story
    • Montana, model of the world

Part 2: Past Societies

  • Chapter 2: Twilight at Easter 79

    • The quarry’s mysteries
    • Easter’s geography and history
    • People and food
    • Chiefs, clans, and commoners
    • Platforms and statues
    • Carving, transporting, erecting
    • The vanished forest
    • Consequences for society
    • Europeans and explanations
    • Why was Easter fragile?
    • Easter as metaphor

  • Chapter 3: The Last People Alive: Pitcairn and Henderson Islands 120

    • Pitcairn before the Bounty
    • Three dissimilar islands
    • Trade
    • The movie’s ending

  • Chapter 4: The Ancient Ones: The Anasazi and Their Neighbors 136

    • Desert farmers
    • Tree rings
    • Agricultural strategies
    • Chaco’s problems and packrats
    • Regional integration
    • Chaco’s decline and end
    • Chaco’s message

  • Chapter 5: The Maya Collapses 157

    • Mysteries of lost cities
    • The Maya environment
    • Maya agriculture
    • Maya history
    • Copán
    • Complexities of collapses
    • Wars and droughts
    • Collapse in the southern lowlands
    • The Maya message

  • Chapter 6: The Viking Prelude and Fugues 178

    • Experiments in the Atlantic
    • The Viking explosion
    • Autocatalysis
    • Viking agriculture
    • Iron
    • Viking chiefs
    • Viking religion
    • Orkneys, Shetlands, Faeroes
    • Iceland’s environment
    • Iceland’s history
    • Iceland in context
    • Vinland

  • Chapter 7: Norse Greenland’s Flowering 211

    • Europe’s outpost
    • Greenland’s climate today
    • Climate in the past
    • Native plants and animals
    • Norse settlement
    • Farming
    • Hunting and fishing
    • An integrated economy
    • Society
    • Trade with Europe
    • Self-image

  • Chapter 8: Norse Greenland’s End 248

    • Introduction to the end
    • Deforestation
    • Soil and turf damage
    • The Inuit’s predecessors
    • Inuit subsistence
    • Inuit/Norse relations
    • The end
    • Ultimate causes of the end

  • Chapter 9: Opposite Paths to Success 277

    • Bottom up, top down
    • New Guinea highlands
    • Tikopia
    • Tokugawa problems
    • Tokugawa solutions
    • Why Japan succeeded
    • Other successes

Part 3: Modern Societies

  • Chapter 10: Malthus in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide 311

    • A dilemma
    • Events in Rwanda
    • More than ethnic hatred
    • Buildup in Kanama
    • Explosion in Kanama
    • Why it happened

  • Chapter 11: One Island, Two Peoples, Two Histories: The Dominican Republic and Haiti 329

    • Differences
    • Histories
    • Causes of divergence
    • Dominican environmental impacts
    • Balaguer
    • The Dominican environment today
    • The future

  • Chapter 12: China, Lurching Giant 358

    • China’s significance
    • Background
    • Air, water, soil
    • Habitat, species, megaprojects
    • Consequences
    • Connections
    • The future

  • Chapter 13: “Mining” Australia 378

    • Australia’s significance
    • Soils
    • Water
    • Distance
    • Early history
    • Imported values
    • Trade and immigration
    • Land degradation
    • Other environmental problems
    • Signs of hope and change

Part 4: Practical Lessons

  • Chapter 14: Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions? 419

    • Road map for success
    • Failure to anticipate
    • Failure to perceive
    • Rational bad behavior
    • Disastrous values
    • Other irrational failures
    • Unsuccessful solutions
    • Signs of hope

  • Chapter 15: Big Businesses and the Environment: Different Conditions, Different Outcomes 441

    • Resource extraction
    • Two oil fields
    • Oil company motives
    • Hardrock mining operations
    • Mining company motives
    • Differences among mining companies
    • The logging industry
    • Forest Stewardship Council
    • The seafood industry
    • Businesses and the public

  • Chapter 16: The World as a Polder: What Does It All Mean to Us Today? 486

    • Introduction
    • The most serious problems
    • If we don’t solve them…
    • Life in Los Angeles
    • One-liner objections
    • The past and the present
    • Reasons for hope

Afterword: Angkor’s Rise and Fall 526

  • Questions about Angkor
  • Angkor’s environment
  • Angkor’s rise
  • The great city
  • Magnificent engineering
  • Angkor’s decline

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