Jared Diamond on the Collapse of Societies: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
unknown (talk) |
||
| Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
“Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it. ” | “Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it. ” | ||
[[Category:Webcasts]] | [[Category:Webcasts]] | ||
[[Category:Politics]] | [[Category:Politics]] | ||
[[Category:Collapse]] | |||
Latest revision as of 04:18, 6 August 2022
“The big problems facing the world today are not at all things beyond our control. Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. Since we made the problems, we can also solve them. It is entirely within our power to solve our problems.”
TED Video via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis
Description
“Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it. ”