"American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and…
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
"American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and…
"Megadrought and Collapse revises the global archaeological and historical record with nine case studies that describe and analyze decades to centuries long megadroughts, from the Pleistocene to the 15th century AD, and the societal collapses they caused. Each study is a definit…
Der Niedergang des Westens wird seit langem vorausgesagt. Doch heute sind die Symptome dieses Niedergangs nicht mehr zu übersehen: nachlassendes Wachstum, explodierende Staatsschulden, zunehmende Ungleichheit, alternde Bevölkerungen, auseinanderbrechende Sozialgefüge. Aber was g…
"In Thomas Homer-Dixon's new study of crisis and revival, he argues that the modern world has become increasingly vulnerable to breakdown - whether from terrorist attacks, environmental disasters, energy scarcity, or the widening gap between rich and poor." "But it is also ripe …
"In Thomas Homer-Dixon's new study of crisis and revival, he argues that the modern world has become increasingly vulnerable to breakdown - whether from terrorist attacks, environmental disasters, energy scarcity, or the widening gap between rich and poor." "But it is also ripe …
"The Long Descent follows our present industrial society down the same well-worn path that has led other civilizations into decline. John Michael Greer explains that this path involves a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by so many…