Collapse
by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel. It explores the growing importance of environmental and ecological concerns to progressive US politics.
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