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Title: A Swing and a Miss
Review: Guns, Germs and Steel was a tough act to follow, and Diamond doesn't deliver with Collapse. Generally readable and contains some interesting bits, but vastly verbose and about twice as long as it needs to be. Although he starts out with a balanced, objective approach, by the end he is ensuring invitations to all the cool cocktail parties in Los Angeles by spewing unsustained statistics on global warming with no acknowledgement of any competing views.
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