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Title: Theory is decent, but personal interjections unneccesary
Review: Diamond's book does a fairly good job at evaluating the conditions of societal collapse, but his theory lacks the modern analysis of imperialism, which is an enormous factor in collapse today as resources are brought out of the third world into the first for consumer purchase.Diamond's personal interjections break the flow of the book, and often are quite offensive, "The U.S. explicitly forbids the importation of kangaroo meat, because we find the beasts cute, and because a congressman's wife heard that kangaroos are endangered." Diamond's personal commentary has no factual basis to support it, and is quite offensive.Collapse approaches potential solutions but instead favors a small, insignificant substitutions for "unsustainable factors in society."
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