TY  - BOOK
AB  - What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us.
AU  - Diamond, Jared M.
CN  - HN13
CN  - HN13
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2005.
ID  - 289781
KW  - Social history
KW  - Social change
KW  - Environmental policy
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy052/2004057152.html
N2  - What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya, the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland, and finally to the modern world, Diamond traces a pattern of catastrophe, spelling out what happens when we squander our resources, when we ignore the signals or environment gives us.
PB  - Viking,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2005.
SN  - 0670033375
T1  - Collapse :how societies choose to fail or succeed /
TI  - Collapse :how societies choose to fail or succeed /
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy052/2004057152.html
ER  -