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发表于2025-03-19
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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?
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。
Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
评分其实,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
评分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。。。
评分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。。。
评分Re-read this gem recently, aged fantastically-- the reasons civilizations rose and fell are still repeating themselves, and Jared Diamond capitalizes on that.
花了两个星期,非常细致地读完了戴蒙德的这两本书,感触很深。以前都是在整理完读书笔记后,才写书评的,但是这次却觉得心中有很多话迫切地向说出来。 《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》主要是从环境角度阐述了人类历史发展过程中的一些看似细微却影响重大的自然因素,指出,这些自然因素...
评分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...
评分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...
评分【读品】罗豫/文 虽然环境问题已成为中国经济高速发展的并发症,赚钱、买房、买车、炒股依旧是中国人日常交流的话语磁场所在。环境问题,最多是饭桌上的“季节性冷盘”,春天沙尘肆虐、夏天洪水汹汹、冬天千里冰封的时候才会得到公众不愉快的关注。说到底,在公共水龙头前贴上...
评分《枪炮、病菌与钢铁:人类社会的命运》和《崩溃——社会如何选择成败兴亡》都是贾雷德·戴蒙德的作品,也是人类学方面杰出的普及作品。不过,我都是非常不厚道地看的电子版。 前一本书的视角是非常独特的,从农业起源和地理气候的因素分析人类发展历史中偶然中的微妙必...
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