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Title: Painfully hits home
Review: I'm originally from Montana and I'm well acquainted with the Bitteroot Valley. Jared Diamond's technique of juxtaposing far-away Norse Greenland and the Mayan Empire against something so familiar sensitized me. From that point on, I put myself in the place of the Mayans, Easter Islanders, Chaco Canyon Anasazi and imagined their heartache and terror as the endtime of their civilizations approached. To imagine the same on a planetary scale - That's the real lesson of the book we should all heed. There's imminent need for government action to preserve the ecosystem. Hmm... now who didn't sign the Kyoto accord again?
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