. The book attempts to explain why some civilizations die while others thrive. Essentially, he posits that environmental decay resulting from both man-made and natural causes is the primary cause of civilization collapse. This sounds like a major oversimplification to me. Then again, I am not an anthropologist and my opinion may be useless.I read Mr. Diamond's previous book, "Guns, Germs and Steel"
. That book was interesting but very dry and difficult to read at times. Collapse is written in a more readable style but, near the end, started to dry out too.All in all, I enjoyed it.
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