Collapse - Jared Diamond

Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By Jared Diamond

Collapse is a book for everyone to read. It isn’t a soft fluffy fairy tail but a serious look at the journey of mankind. It considers where we have been, mistakes we have made along with successes and suggest directions we may be heading unless we make some major and minor course corrections.

This book digs deep into why past societies have failed and what led up to those failures. Diamond then considers how the multitude of failures seen in the past, apparent and not, might be sneaking into our own society. The book isn’t a doom and gloom book but does attempt give an honest perspective on where we are as a society, both good and bad.

Overall this book really should be read by everyone, environmentalist or not. It is slow at times because of the depth of information given, but Diamonds story telling ability makes even boring facts come to life and fit into a proper and interesting context.

I give it a must read and rating of 5/5.

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed