Jonathan R. Schmidt

Why do socieities collapse?

I came across Jared Diamond’s online lecture about his book Collapse while searching for his book online for my Masters thesis. The lecture is an excellent summary about why societies collapse due to ecological destruction. Diamond links ecological collapse to total social, economic and cultural collapse. His book Collapse was a best-seller and for good reason. It not only highlights our need to understand our ecological systems, but also how our social and economic systems support an ignorance to the destruction of our ecological systems, which ultimately underpin our whole society.