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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。
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.
评分Some chapters are too dry, but some are good and acutely point out the problem of mordern society. Globalization is not always so good in the perspective of environment. Maybe we should really focus back on our local economy instead of importing and exporting so much.
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Some chapters are too dry, but some are good and acutely point out the problem of mordern society. Globalization is not always so good in the perspective of environment. Maybe we should really focus back on our local economy instead of importing and exporting so much.
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评分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...
评分为什么一定要给这本书贴上一个环保主义的标签,把它归类,似乎自己已经掌握了它,魔鬼已经制服。我只知道我读了它之后,情绪受到了影响,内心很不平静。我不是害怕于那些触目惊心的破坏环境的事实,也不是恐惧于人类有可能像寄生虫一样将与宿主同归于尽,我只是在想地球如果有...
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评分书是很好的,就是…… 301页最后一段: 本段第一句(老美写作爱放中心思想的地方): “讨论完中国的进口品,现在让我们广义地来看中国的出口品。” 接下来说来自中国或东亚的病害、虫害对美国林木造成的损害,还有中国草鱼对美国淡水生态的影响。 然后就说: “另外,中...
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