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Title: Collapse
Subtitle: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Jared Diamond
Narrator: Christopher Murney
Format: Abridged
Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-05
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1327 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: how can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
Critic Reviews:
"A thought-provoking book." (Booklist) "An enthralling, and disturbing, reminder of the indissoluble links that bind humans to nature." (Publishers Weekly)
