Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | 
 agrandir | Auteur: Jared Diamond
Créateur: Jared Diamond
Éditeur: Penguin Books
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Média: Broche
Édition: Reprint
Pages: 592
Poids (kg): 1.1
Dimension (cm): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0143036556
Code Décimal Dewey: 304.28
EAN: 9780143036555
ASIN: 0143036556
Date de publication: Janvier 2006
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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity. Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff
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Meriterait 6 etoiles Janvier 29, 2007
Tanya (France)
7 sur 8 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile
LE meilleur livre que j'ai lu ces dix dernieres annees!
Et surtout le plus important. Jared Diamond, un geographe, nous demontre, exemples passes et bien documentes a l'appui, que la planete va dans le mur et comment. Il ose dire que nous sommes trop nombreux sur cette terre et que, meme si les habitants du tiers monde ne consommaient pas un gramme de plus et si notre train de vie, a nous les riches, n'augmentait pas, nous courrerions a la catatastrophe.
A faire lire a vos enfants et petits enfants pour les plus ages, toutes affaires cessantes.
Inutile de dire qu'apres avoir lu ce livre, les affaires du microcosme parisien apparaissent pour ce qu'elles sont: des plaisanteries de gamins, sans aucun interet.
Deep Février 10, 2005
Sancho Mahle (Charlotte, USA)
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In Collapse, Jared Diamond has successfully examined the thousands of year of human history, by evaluating many of the great civilizations that went extinct due to their inability to recognize the limits of their resources and the strength of the forces of nature. The failures of those ancient and modern societies especially in Africa and Asia, as well the Easter Island and Greenland stemmed from the fact that they were compromised by their environment through disasters that were either natural or induced.In this well-researched book, Diamond wrote of eco-disasters and the depletion of environmental resources through unsustainable measures as the principal causes of the demise of those societies. Not only that, he mentioned some societies that that have solved their ecological problems and succeeded. Nevertheless, the overriding point Diamond made is that in this age of globalization, societies must take collective actions to avoid the collapse of the world's highly interdependent global economy, since it is fast approaching its unsustainable level. This book is a wake up call for the world to develop sustainable sources of energy that does not compromise the environment. Hydrogen cars, solar energy etc should be things for the immediate tomorrow. The lesson is clear. Those societies that can adapt their ways of life to be in line with the potentials of their environment last while those societies that abuse their resources ultimate commit suicide, and so fail. Now, for the first time in human history, modern technology, global interdependence and international cooperation have provided us with the means and opportunity to judiciously use our resource and prevent their depletion not only from a small scale, but from a global scale as well. It is only by harnessing this new knowledge to sustain our planet, that we shall avoid the fate of self-destruction, like several great societies before us. Also recommended: OVERSHOOT, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE
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