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    Summary: Collapse: Review and Analysis of Jared Diamond's Book
    Summary: Collapse: Review and Analysis of Jared Diamond's Book
    Summary: Collapse: Review and Analysis of Jared Diamond's Book
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    Summary: Collapse: Review and Analysis of Jared Diamond's Book

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    The must-read summary of Jared Diamond’s book: “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”. 

    This complete summary of “Collapse” by Jared Diamond, a renowned scientist, writer and cautious optimist for the world's future, presents his explanation of the secret to why some societies succeed, while others fail. To do this, the author investigates several significant events from the past that have caused societies to self-destruct and what this discovery means for our future. By reading the evidence put forward by Diamond, we can understand what causes societies to fail and ensure that our society succeeds. 

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    To learn more, read “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” and find out how we can avoid the decisions that caused previous societies to fail.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPolitical Book Summaries
    Release dateJan 30, 2017
    ISBN9782511000458
    Summary: Collapse: Review and Analysis of Jared Diamond's Book

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      Book Abstract

      In Collapse, Jared Diamond argues that present global resource consumption trends are not sustainable. Throughout history, civilizations have collapsed or declined, in no small measure, because their populations have undermined the ecological niches upon which their existence depends. Diamond believes that a complex set of factors, such as environmental resilience (or fragility), social flexibility, larger global trends and even pure luck, combine in unpredictable ways to influence whether societies fail or succeed.

      Studying how past civilizations have met, or failed to meet, environmental challenges may prove crucial in averting future global calamities. In the past, when a civilization failed, its impact was usually localized. But in today’s interconnected world, a failure in one part of the globe will have wide repercussions that have the potential to affect all mankind. This should cause us great concern, but by acknowledging the serious challenges we face, we may yet be able to avoid some of the worst catastrophes that might await us otherwise.

      About the Author

      Jared Diamond teaches geography at the University of California and is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel. One of the most distinguished experts in the field of

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