Thursday 10 April 2008

Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed


The author evidently knows his stuff, although the way he exposes it is definitely boring. Some chapters (esp. on Greenland) are a real pain to read, other definitely (China, Japan) very interesting. I personally don't share the moderate optimism of the author, which I feel is more than anything a commercial mask to be able to sell his services to big corporations.

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