A review by montalpn
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Diamond does an excellent job avoiding the geographic determinism that is the main flaw in his more popular Guns, Germs, and Steel work. I also appreciate his cautious optimism, which makes the lesson seem less of a prophetic doomsday and more of an advocation to change. The only thing I’d like to see more explored is the political aspects of societal collapse, which can and do vary.