# Diamond 2005: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

> Jared Diamond, 2005. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The best-known statement of the ecocide account.

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# 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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