TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diamond,Jared M.
TI  - Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed 
SN  - 0670033375
AV  - HN13 .D5 2005
U1  - 304.2/8 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Social history
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Social change
KW  - Environmental policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-560) and index
N2  - What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us
ER  -