賈雷德·戴濛德(Jared Diamond),加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校醫學院生理學教授,美國藝術與科學院、國傢科學院院士,是當代少數幾位探究人類社會與文明的思想傢之一。
戴濛德的研究使他獲奬無數,包括美國國傢科學奬、美國 地理學會伯爾奬、泰勒環境貢獻奬、日本國際環境和諧奬和麥剋阿瑟基金會研究基金。
戴濛德的代錶作《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》探討瞭人類社會不平等的起源和地理成因,獲1998年美國普利策奬和英國科普圖書奬。
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?
發表於2024-12-26
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為什麼一定要給這本書貼上一個環保主義的標簽,把它歸類,似乎自己已經掌握瞭它,魔鬼已經製服。我隻知道我讀瞭它之後,情緒受到瞭影響,內心很不平靜。我不是害怕於那些觸目驚心的破壞環境的事實,也不是恐懼於人類有可能像寄生蟲一樣將與宿主同歸於盡,我隻是在想地球如果有...
評分【讀品】羅豫/文 雖然環境問題已成為中國經濟高速發展的並發癥,賺錢、買房、買車、炒股依舊是中國人日常交流的話語磁場所在。環境問題,最多是飯桌上的“季節性冷盤”,春天沙塵肆虐、夏天洪水洶洶、鼕天韆裏冰封的時候纔會得到公眾不愉快的關注。說到底,在公共水龍頭前貼上...
評分地震發生的時候,我一如往日地在網上閑逛。突如其來的眩暈讓我産生瞭錯覺,以為自己的某些身體機能齣瞭問題。等站起身來纔意識到眩暈的感覺不是身動也不是心動,是整棟樓都在晃動。接下來的狼狽動作事後想起來都覺得無比羞赧,手機沒拿本本沒拿房門鑰匙沒拿書也顧不上衣服也顧...
評分作者講維京人用瞭三章的篇幅,打頭便是對1958年柯剋•道格拉斯主演的電影《維京人》的某一場景進行一番追述,“50年後我仍然記得影片裏維京海盜攻破古堡的大門,大肆屠殺裏麵毫無戒備、正在舉杯痛飲的人們。柯剋•道格拉斯請求他美麗的俘虜珍妮特•利假裝反抗來增強他的...
評分1. 本書所研究的崩潰,是指在相當大的地域範圍內,曆經一段時期,人口數量、政治經濟社會復雜性的遽減與衰敗。知名的崩潰例子有瑪雅、復活節島、吳哥窟等。作者舉的知名例子,多數我沒聽說過或隻聽過名字,汗一下。 2. 過去社會自我破壞環境的過程可分為八個種類:森林退化和棲...
圖書標籤: 人文社科 曆史 人類社會 人類學 社會 社會學 地理 Jared
Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
評分4.9 stars. The demonstration of Easter Island's society.
評分Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
評分哎瑪雅,讀原版太纍瞭
評分其實,直接去看Jared Diamond在TED的演講就夠瞭吧。如果不是寫幾韆字的book review不需要全讀。。最後三章(或許讀讀prologue和前兩章)足夠
Collapse 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載