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Originally Posted by Jenson71
How does this compare to Guns, Germs, Steel? I liked the interesting twist on history he gave in the first one.
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I've onlt browsed G,G, & S (which he won the pulitzer for).
It's just more about the environmental choices that different civilizations made in history and its role in those respective societies' respective "collapses".
It's not as doom and gloom as I'm making it sound though. He's optimitstic that we are better informed than our predecessors to confront these choices.
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“When war breaks out people say: 'It won't last, it's too stupid.' And war is certainly too stupid, but that doesn't prevent It from lasting.”
~Albert Camus, The Plague.
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