"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond
The best-selling US author Jared Diamond writes about vanishing resources, climate change, overpopulation and ecological damage in his book Collapse. His description of the downfall of a culture on Easter Island is a clear warning of the consequences of our way of life. In order to build the famous stone heads, the natives cut down every last tree on the islands. Without the trees, erosion quickly destroyed the soil, making it impossible to farm the land. It was now also impossible to build boats in order to escape to another island, and the culture disappeared in cannibalism. The book "Collapse" is published by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, and here is an Inverview with Jared Diamond about the book in the Zeit.
