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Title: Collapse
Review: In Collapse, Jared Diamond explains the failure or survival of societies spanning thousands of years and diverse geographies. Despite the subtitle, as he examines the complex ecological and social systems, it seems that, knowing what they did, there is little the 'failed' societies could have chosen to do differently. The answer to why some make it and some don't occasionally comes down to simple geography, but most often it has to do with how they adapt to their environment, not realizing that their way of life is, in the long run, unsustainable.Diamond makes the decisions and fate of the inhabitants of Easter island seem as logical and important as the concerns of modern day residents of Montana, and the broad variety of groups profiled shows why we can't think ourselves immune to the same problems.
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