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发表于2024-11-26
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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?
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。
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.
评分哎玛雅,读原版太累了
评分Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
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...
评分作者按:戴蒙德去年入选全球前十大公共知识分子之列,是我非常喜爱的学者。不过,此书精彩程度并不及他之前的两部著作《枪炮、钢枪和细菌》和《性趣探秘》。 这篇书评刊于《开放时代》2003年第5期。《崩溃》如今已有中文版行世,我大概是国内最早介绍此书的人。 贾雷德.戴蒙...
评分 评分翻译:很流畅 主要内容:过去和现代的人类社会怎样处理环境问题,以及其后果,即引发的一系列社会问题,最终导致了社会的崩溃 个人很喜欢这本书,尽管大众的评价不怎么高,和之前的《钢铁细菌枪炮》一样,这样的书好就好在了“释疑”。启发很多 环境崩溃的5个因素: 生态破坏...
评分花了两个星期,非常细致地读完了戴蒙德的这两本书,感触很深。以前都是在整理完读书笔记后,才写书评的,但是这次却觉得心中有很多话迫切地向说出来。 《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》主要是从环境角度阐述了人类历史发展过程中的一些看似细微却影响重大的自然因素,指出,这些自然因素...
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