具体描述
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving 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, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. 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. Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is 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?
作者简介
贾雷德·戴蒙德（Jared Diamond），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授，美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士，是当代少数几位探究人类社会与文明的思想家之一。
戴蒙德的研究使他获奖无数，包括美国国家科学奖、美国 地理学会伯尔奖、泰勒环境贡献奖、日本国际环境和谐奖和麦克阿瑟基金会研究基金。
戴蒙德的代表作《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》探讨了人类社会不平等的起源和地理成因，获1998年美国普利策奖和英国科普图书奖。
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读后感
不知钻石教授戴蒙德先生是否预料过他新书在中国推广的难度。也许他曾设想过，书中对中国环境政策的思考可能会引起一些争论和反感。但估计他不会预料到，这本巨著的推广可能因为推广活动本身而郁郁而终。 本着和所有环保行动者，无论是科学还是不科学的，一样的初衷，钻石教授...
评分北極圈的永凍層逐漸融解，海水淹沒屯墾區，居住在那兒的居民被迫遷村；阿爾卑斯山的雪線不斷上升，群山面臨分崩離析的危機，一千四百萬人的生存倍受考驗；持續砍伐亞馬遜雨林，五十年後將有百分之六十的林地消失，意即在地球上維持人類生存的氧氣將減少五分之一。 以上三件事...
评分朋友问我，《崩溃》那本书写了什么，是描写大灾难吗？ 我告诉她：那本书，写的是社会为什么会走向崩溃。那本书里，戴蒙德说，环境问题一点也不新鲜——“从50000年前智人发展了现代发明、效率和狩猎技能，对环境资源的持续性管理就一直是个难题。”古人根本不是清白无辜、天真...
评分为什么一定要给这本书贴上一个环保主义的标签，把它归类，似乎自己已经掌握了它，魔鬼已经制服。我只知道我读了它之后，情绪受到了影响，内心很不平静。我不是害怕于那些触目惊心的破坏环境的事实，也不是恐惧于人类有可能像寄生虫一样将与宿主同归于尽，我只是在想地球如果有...
评分北極圈的永凍層逐漸融解，海水淹沒屯墾區，居住在那兒的居民被迫遷村；阿爾卑斯山的雪線不斷上升，群山面臨分崩離析的危機，一千四百萬人的生存倍受考驗；持續砍伐亞馬遜雨林，五十年後將有百分之六十的林地消失，意即在地球上維持人類生存的氧氣將減少五分之一。 以上三件事...
用户评价
Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
评分其实，直接去看Jared Diamond在TED的演讲就够了吧。如果不是写几千字的book review不需要全读。。最后三章(或许读读prologue和前两章)足够
评分Some chapters are too dry, but some are good and acutely point out the problem of mordern society. Globalization is not always so good in the perspective of environment. Maybe we should really focus back on our local economy instead of importing and exporting so much.
评分其实，直接去看Jared Diamond在TED的演讲就够了吧。如果不是写几千字的book review不需要全读。。最后三章(或许读读prologue和前两章)足够
评分哎玛雅，读原版太累了
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