Collapse

贾雷德·戴蒙德（Jared Diamond），加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授，美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士，是当代少数几位探究人类社会与文明的思想家之一。戴蒙德的研究使他获奖无数，包括美国国家科学奖、美国 地理学会伯尔奖、泰勒环境贡献奖、日本国际环境和谐奖和麦克阿瑟基金会研究基金。戴蒙德的代表作《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》探讨了人类社会不平等的起源和地理成因，获1998年美国普利策奖和英国科普图书奖。

出版者:Viking Adult

作者:Jared Diamond

页数:592

出版时间:2004-12-29

价格:USD 29.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780670033379

图书标签:人文社科历史人类社会人类学社会社会学地理Jared

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel , Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel , Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving 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, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. 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?

读后感

北極圈的永凍層逐漸融解，海水淹沒屯墾區，居住在那兒的居民被迫遷村；阿爾卑斯山的雪線不斷上升，群山面臨分崩離析的危機，一千四百萬人的生存倍受考驗；持續砍伐亞馬遜雨林，五十年後將有百分之六十的林地消失，意即在地球上維持人類生存的氧氣將減少五分之一。 以上三件事...  

翻译：很流畅 主要内容：过去和现代的人类社会怎样处理环境问题，以及其后果，即引发的一系列社会问题，最终导致了社会的崩溃 个人很喜欢这本书，尽管大众的评价不怎么高，和之前的《钢铁细菌枪炮》一样，这样的书好就好在了“释疑”。启发很多 环境崩溃的5个因素： 生态破坏...  

不知钻石教授戴蒙德先生是否预料过他新书在中国推广的难度。也许他曾设想过，书中对中国环境政策的思考可能会引起一些争论和反感。但估计他不会预料到，这本巨著的推广可能因为推广活动本身而郁郁而终。 本着和所有环保行动者，无论是科学还是不科学的，一样的初衷，钻石教授...  

这本书看完以后立刻借给老妈了，而她看书又很慢。因此，写书评的计划就一拖再拖。现在决定写一篇不翻书确认的书评，了结心思。 从书的主旨来讲的，作者可算开宗明义，一上来就把他总结的、导致社会崩溃的生态破坏、气候变化、强敌在侧、友邻衰弱、对策失误等五大因素列出。全...  

北極圈的永凍層逐漸融解，海水淹沒屯墾區，居住在那兒的居民被迫遷村；阿爾卑斯山的雪線不斷上升，群山面臨分崩離析的危機，一千四百萬人的生存倍受考驗；持續砍伐亞馬遜雨林，五十年後將有百分之六十的林地消失，意即在地球上維持人類生存的氧氣將減少五分之一。 以上三件事...  

用户评价

Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.

Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.

其实，直接去看Jared Diamond在TED的演讲就够了吧。如果不是写几千字的book review不需要全读。。最后三章(或许读读prologue和前两章)足够

此书会让人觉得罗嗦，但其实是作者以像做学术那样的严谨态度写的。总结了几个人类文明灭亡或者衰落的原因，看了让人扼腕惋惜。虽然那些文明大多都是小范围的，如今经济文明都全球化。但是，人，仍旧鼠目寸光而又贪婪自私。实在应该每个人都来读这书。虽然读了，也仍旧因为自私而选择鼠目寸光。。。

居然在图找到中文版，希望有天可以看英文版