Book Club Event on 03/12/2022: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

[Eugene]

Event is on March 12th, 2022. 4pm EDT.
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This book was suggested by Marc W.

Pages to read: 539
ISBN: 9780143117001 (Originally listed edition, and edition I am Using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•Why did great societies of the past collapse?
•What role did environmental have in shaping societies?
•What choices did societies make to survive their situations?
•What are the contributing factors to a societies collapse?
•How do environmentalists want to use resources?
•How do businesses want to use resources?
•What are the differences between the short-run and long-run views on resources use?
•Can alternative resources and technology be me available?
•What are failures of group decision making?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My Review of the Book:
https://www.inquiryreviews.com/2021/1...

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Summary from Goodreads:
In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society’s apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?