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// 以榮獲普立茲獎的巨著《槍砲、病菌與鋼鐵》、《動盪：國家如何化解危局、成功轉型？》震撼全球的「當代達爾文」Jared Diamond，獻給21世紀人類的求生之書 //
// 文明即將面臨「生態性自殺」的現代警世預言！ //
在《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》中，Jared Diamond討論何以西方文明能發展出掌握世界的科技和能力；現在，他將從另一個角度來討論現代人類最致命的危機——
先將時間線拉到復活節島的波里尼西亞文化、美洲的阿納薩茲印第安部落與馬雅文明，以及格陵蘭的維京人族群，Jared Diamond借鑑、解析眾多滅絕古文明的危機模式，反思現代社會的急迫困境——天災其實也是人禍！
未來25年內，維繫地球生態的熱帶雨林可能被砍伐一空；50年內，全球暖化將使洪水、颶風等天災發生機率大增；幾十年內，海洋魚類將被捕撈一空，甚至滅絕；化石燃料存量告急……
好險，還有一個抉擇，能夠確保全世界的命運！
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves 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. 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?
