![]() IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE MOST SERIOUS environmental problems facing past and present societies fall into a dozen groups. In his final chapter Diamond summarizes what he sees as the dozen more serious environmental challenges facing the modern world, as well as what we can do now to prevent our own civilization from collapsing. ![]() Diamond explores such past societies as Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, the Anasazi of the Southwestern United States, the Maya, and the Vikings and such modern societies as Rwanda, Haiti, China, Australia, and Montana. In Collapse, Diamond analyzes how different societies squandered or conserved their natural and human resources, and the often catastrophic consequences of their choices. ![]() In his previous volume, Diamond traced the history of civilization in an attempt to answer the question of why some civilizations developed so much more rapidly than other societies, thus accounting for the vast disparities seen today between so many of the planet's peoples. Editors' note: The following excerpt comes from the final chapter of Collapse, Jared Diamond's sequel to his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. ![]()
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