Collapse by Jarad Diamond in HECTORVILLE, South Australia for sale

Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn, long-abandoned statues of Easter Island or to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelect and overgrown like the temples of Angor Wat?
Many cultures have disintergrated, Jarad Diamond reveals, because of environmental crisis - and most of these crisis were self induced. Taking us on a rich compelling journey throuh history, Diamond ttravels the globe from Haiti to New Guinea, Iceland to the Pacific Islands, to explore the fates of our ancestors. Why, he asks, id the Vikings who once colonized Greenland eventually starve or flee? Why did the Anasazi buikd the tallest buildings in the United States and then abandon them? Diamond also ranges over today's world; how the tiny island Tikopia has thrived against all odds for thousands of years; why the big sky country of Montana is a ticking ecological timebomb; and what role today's big business conglomerates have to play.
Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources abd piecing together the myriad influences, frm climate to cylture, that make societies self destruct, Collapse also shows how, unlike our ancestors, we can benifit from our knowledge of the past - and learn to be survivors.