Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond, 2005. Viking, New York.

A comparative study of societies that failed; its Easter Island chapter argues that deforestation for statue transport and farming led to famine, warfare and collapse before European contact.

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Diamond, J. (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking, New York. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL276557W

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Diamond, Jared. “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” Viking, New York (2005).