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BACK TO THE FUTURE
ASEE Prism, Apr 2005 by Grose, Thomas K
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BACK TO THE FUTURE
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed By Jared Diamond, Viking, $29.95
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THROUGHOUT TIME, societies have generally faced the same dangers, including environmental and economic challenges, warfare and ignorance, Some survived. But many others ranging from the Mayans to the Mycenaeans crumbled. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a cautionary tale from Jared Diamond, the UCLA geologist and physiologist whose book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, won the Pulitzer Prize for its adroit explanation of why some civilizations prosper."Advanced societies today face growing environmental and economic problems" that mimic those that destroyed past ones, Collapse warns. But Diamond offers hope: "The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn, in order that we may keep on succeeding." And today's societies have one advantage: The wherewithal to learn those lessons quickly.
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