{"product_id":"collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed-revised-edition","title":"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnvironmental 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuns, Germs, and Steel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCollapse\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41gxzVfuz4L._SX300_CR0%2C0%2C300%2C300_.jpg\" alt=\"Jared Diamond profile image\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME’s best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World Until Yesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807435129063,"sku":"7885","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1829\/3249\/files\/collapse.jpg?v=1771515583","url":"https:\/\/bookstore.acresusa.com\/products\/collapse-how-societies-choose-to-fail-or-succeed-revised-edition","provider":"Acres U.S.A. ®","version":"1.0","type":"link"}