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DESCRIPTION:n the companion volume to his mega-hit and perpetual bestseller Guns, 
 Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond probes what caused some of the great 
 civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what we can learn from 
 their fates. Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a 
 series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives, moving from 
 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. He traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, the 
 environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise 
 political choices that were factors in the demise of these societies. 
 COLLAPSE raises the urgent question: How can our world best avoid 
 committing ecological suicide?  For more information contact:  Cody's  
 510-845-7852  
 http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php?uid=4919\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/04/84363.php
SUMMARY:	Jared Diamond examines Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
LOCATION:Large Assembly, First Congregational Church of Berkeley  2345 Channing Way  
 Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/04/84363.php
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