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Cargando... Colapso : por qué unas sociedades perduran y otras desaparecen (2005)por Jared M. Diamond
  
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  ) varbes | Jan 11, 2021 |  El punto de partida es una rigurosa investigación de los casos de culturas que no han perdurado: historias trágicas como la de los mayas, la de la Isla de Pascua o la de los indios anasazi en Norteamérica; historias menos terribles como la de Islandia o de Japón, culturas que han sabido reaccionar con éxito a desafíos ambientales; historias también de vencedores y vencidos, como el caso de la República Dominicana y de Haití, dos pueblos que a pesar de compartir el mismo medio ambiente han evolucionado de modos muy distintos, y finalmente historias aún abiertas como las de China o Australia, que están buscando soluciones innovadoras a sus desafíos ecológicos y sociales. ¿Qué lección podemos aprender del pasado? ¿Está nuestro futuro en peligro? Las respuestas que ofrece este libro no son catastróficas, pero al mismo tiempo nos advierten de la urgencia de tomar decisiones cuanto antes si queremos seguir admirando las ruinas de otros pueblos que nos han precedido. bibliotecayamaguchi | Dec 15, 2017 |  ) gneoflavio | Mar 31, 2016 |
 Taken together, ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' and ''Collapse'' represent one of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation. They are magnificent books: extraordinary in erudition and originality, compelling in their ability to relate the digitized pandemonium of the present to the hushed agrarian sunrises of the far past. I read both thinking what literature might be like if every author knew so much, wrote so clearly and formed arguments with such care. All of which makes the two books exasperating, because both come to conclusions that are probably wrong. Mr. Diamond -- who has academic training in physiology, geography and evolutionary biology -- is a lucid writer with an ability to make arcane scientific concepts readily accessible to the lay reader, and his case studies of failed cultures are never less than compelling.  Human behaviour towards the ecosphere has become dysfunctional and now arguably threatens our own long-term security. The real problem is that the modern world remains in the sway of a dangerously illusory cultural myth. Like Lomborg, most governments and international agencies seem to believe that the human enterprise is somehow 'decoupling' from the environment, and so is poised for unlimited expansion. Jared Diamond's new book, Collapse, confronts this contradiction head-on. It is essential reading for anyone who is unafraid to be disillusioned if it means they can walk into the future with their eyes open. Diamond is at pains to stress the objectivity he has brought to bear on a sequence of collapse scenarios that often continue to generate serious controversy, and for the most part (until the final chapter) leaves it up to the reader to draw down any conclusions from these scenarios that may be relevant to our own societies today. Pertenece a las seriesPertenece a las series editorialesFischer Taschenbuch (16730) Gallimard, Folio essais (513) Tiene la adaptaciónPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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