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。
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?
1. 本书所研究的崩溃,是指在相当大的地域范围内,历经一段时期,人口数量、政治经济社会复杂性的遽减与衰败。知名的崩溃例子有玛雅、复活节岛、吴哥窟等。作者举的知名例子,多数我没听说过或只听过名字,汗一下。 2. 过去社会自我破坏环境的过程可分为八个种类:森林退化和栖...
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...
评分几个星期内断断续续读完这本书。有很多感触。书中有很多观点值得细细品味琢磨。对我震撼最深的是关于卢旺达种族屠杀的分析。因为我之前才看过卢旺达大饭店,以及一些对于卢旺达历史的描述。如果这场人间惨剧不是因为种族仇恨,而是因为自然资源不足而引起的厮杀;如果卢旺达的...
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...
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4.9 stars. The demonstration of Easter Island's society.
评分好像也没讲出什么来,和看了自私的基因后一样,没有变化
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。。。
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