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January 5, 2008
Collapse
I just finished Jared Diamond's Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. It was entertaining, enlightening, and fairly depressing without being alarmist (Diamond describes himself as a cautious optimist).
I highly recommend reading it. And think carefully about what we can and must learn from the collapse of societies in our collective past.
Modern societies, even first-world ones like the US, are far from immune from the external and internal forces that cause collapse.
The choice is our to make, either by decisive action or by inaction and momentum.
Posted by dberger at January 5, 2008 1:13 PM