Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which Diamond reviews the causes of historical and pre-historical instances of societal collapse — particularly those involving significant influences from environmental changes, the effects of climate change, hostile neighbors, and trade partners — and considers the responses different societies have had to such threats.
While the bulk of the book is concerned with the demise of these historical civilizations, Diamond also argues that humanity collectively faces, on a much larger scale, many of the same issues, with possibly catastrophic near-future consequences to many of the world's populations.
See also
- List of important publications in anthropology
- List of environmental books
- Complexity
- Creeping normality
- Decline of the Roman Empire
- Deforestation during the Roman period
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Ecocide
- Environmental disaster
- Global catastrophic risk
- Global warming
- Human impact on the environment
- List of environmental issues
- Societal collapse
- Sustainability
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