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?
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...
評分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...
評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...
評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...
評分地震发生的时候,我一如往日地在网上闲逛。突如其来的眩晕让我产生了错觉,以为自己的某些身体机能出了问题。等站起身来才意识到眩晕的感觉不是身动也不是心动,是整栋楼都在晃动。接下来的狼狈动作事后想起来都觉得无比羞赧,手机没拿本本没拿房门钥匙没拿书也顾不上衣服也顾...
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
评分此書會讓人覺得羅嗦,但其實是作者以像做學術那樣的嚴謹態度寫的。總結瞭幾個人類文明滅亡或者衰落的原因,看瞭讓人扼腕惋惜。雖然那些文明大多都是小範圍的,如今經濟文明都全球化。但是,人,仍舊鼠目寸光而又貪婪自私。實在應該每個人都來讀這書。雖然讀瞭,也仍舊因為自私而選擇鼠目寸光。。。
评分4.9 stars. The demonstration of Easter Island's society.
评分此書會讓人覺得羅嗦,但其實是作者以像做學術那樣的嚴謹態度寫的。總結瞭幾個人類文明滅亡或者衰落的原因,看瞭讓人扼腕惋惜。雖然那些文明大多都是小範圍的,如今經濟文明都全球化。但是,人,仍舊鼠目寸光而又貪婪自私。實在應該每個人都來讀這書。雖然讀瞭,也仍舊因為自私而選擇鼠目寸光。。。
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