Thursday, 12/30/04

Malcolm Gladwell's ruminative review of Jared Diamond's new book, "Collapse", is as always a compelling read, but Stewart Brand's review is bluntly unsettling:

Diamond identifies five major causes of societal collapse: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trade partners, and stupidity. Any one or two plus stupidity will do.

Uh oh. At least I didn't run out of fingers. 12:27AM «

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