| Coming on strong after the success of his
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| | How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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| Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and
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| | describes how, like many of our cities of
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| Steel, Jared Diamond's new book,
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| | today, "Chaco Canyon became a black hole
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| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
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| | into which goods were imported but from
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| Succeed is a tome of intriguing insight
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| | which nothing tangible was exported."
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| to the other side of the coin. While
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| | As the population grew so did the demands
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| Guns, Germs and Steel examined how some
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| | on the surrounding environment. Fuel and
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| societies thrived, due to their
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| | other essential resources became ever
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| respective geographic and environmental
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| | more distant; coupled with soil depletion
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| endowments, this book examines why
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| | and erosion in the surrounding
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| ancient societies have collapsed so often
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| | farmlands.In essence, they became
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| in the past, in part for the same
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| | increasingly close to living on the
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| reasons. To support this thesis, the
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| | margin of what the environment could
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| book delves into a variety of past
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| | reasonably support. The final straw was
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| civilizations, including the Anasazi of
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| | a prolonged drought. No longer able to
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| the American Southwest, the Maya and the
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| | support or feed themselves, the society
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| Viking colonies of Greenland to
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| | suddenly collapsed into open revolt and
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| illustrate that collapse of a society is
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| | total civil warfare, culminating in
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| no respecter of geography. Nor is it a
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| | cannibalism and ultimately total
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| respecter of time. Collapse: How
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| | abandonment of the site. The moral
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| Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed also
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| | lesson is that while they "adopted
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| looks at modern-day societies such as
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| | solutions that were brilliantly
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| Rwanda to explain the catastrophe that
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| | successful and understandable in the
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| recently befell this afflicted nation, as
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| | 'short term' (they) created fatal
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| well as it depicts present-day Montana
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| | problems in the long run." The analogy
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| and the fascinating factors rendering
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| | to our present day situation of
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| this once wealthy state into one of the
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| | overextending ourselves is obvious.While
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| poorest.Could Montana be a microcosm for
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| | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
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| the U.S. at large? The book asks how
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| | Succeed seems to make a strong connection
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| once astute societies that built
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| | between collapse of a society and it's
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| magnificent monuments testifying of their
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| | environment, this book is not all about
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| social and economic prowess, could
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| | eco-meltdowns. He also measures four
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| suddenly vanish or be rendered impotent.
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| | other critical factors involving the
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| Not lost on the reader throughout these
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| | demise of societies as well; including
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| case studies is the nagging thought that
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| | hostile neighbors; loss of trading
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| perhaps this fate might also befall our
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| | partners; climate change and perhaps most
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| own wealthy country. In fact, it is the
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| | importantly, a society's responses to its
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| seminal point of this provocative book.
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| | challenges. In this vein, this book
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| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
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| | also looks at several past success
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| Succeed hopes to stir our collective
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| | stories where societies in Japan and the
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| consciousness to an understanding what
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| | highlands of New Guinea had the insight
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| lies before us so that we may be saved,
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| | to change fundamental, traditional values
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| as evidenced, from the pitfalls of the
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| | and restore a positive balance with
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| past. In essence, we cannot separate the
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| | nature, trading partners etc. and
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| economy from the environment if we hope
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| | thrive.In its conclusion, Collapse: How
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| to avoid devastation.Perhaps this is best
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| | Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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| depicted in the book's treatise of the
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| | presents a cautious optimism for our own
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| Anasazi. Their vast ruins in what is now
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| | future. The book concludes that because
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| northern New Mexico echo a well-ordered,
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| | we are the creators our own problems, we
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| sophisticated society in a fragile desert
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| | also have the power to amend the
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| environment that lasted over 600 years.
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| | quandaries we have made. This, the book
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| To put this into perspective, they lasted
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| | maintains, will not be easy and will
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| longer than any European society in the
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| | require profound courage; but necessary
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| Americas to date. However, over time the
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| | if we are to have hope for the
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| Anasazi of the Chaco Canyon complex
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| | future.John Woolf is the founder of
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| became ever more specialized in the tasks
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| | several successful Internet technology
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| of the society. This in turn allowed
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| | companies including the Book Price
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| them to make gains in economies of
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| | Comparison website As a pragmatist of
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| efficiency while making them equally
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| | the world around him, he is both a critic
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| interdependent as a culture. More and
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| | and crusader on international politics
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| more the main complex at Chaco Canyon
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| | and energy policy as it relates to our
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| depended on outlying communities and
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| | security and our impact on the global
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