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Jared Diamond Predicts 49 Percent Chance of Civilization Collapse due to our Encomic Crisis
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Posted on 02/18/2009 1:40:10 PM PST by Scythian
(NaturalNews) Jared Diamond is no doom-and-gloomer; he's a Pulitzer Prize winning author of thoughtful, carefully researched books about the rise and fall of societies. Diamond is best known for Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, both of which are among my top-recommended books of all time.
When you read these books, you'll quickly realize that Diamond is perhaps the world's top expert on what might be called the "holistic, interdependent nature of complex societies." Rather than limiting his perspective to immediate, short-term actions and consequences (as most national leaders and corporations do), Diamond intelligently examines the long-term, interdependent factors that lead to any society's success or failure.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Society
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:40:10 PM PST
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Scythian
To: Scythian
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:41:06 PM PST
by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
To: Scythian
AWWWWW...Bambi went to Jared too
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:41:51 PM PST
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Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Doogle
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:42:53 PM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: Scythian
...Jared Diamond is no doom-and-gloomer; he's . . . is best known for Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed...No, not at all.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:43:10 PM PST
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Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: Scythian
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:43:28 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: Doogle
well 2012 is just around the corner and the world cease to exist then just like it did when the Roman Empire collapsed and when jesus came to the seventh day adventists sometime in the 19th century.
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02/18/2009 1:43:40 PM PST
by
utherdoul
To: utherdoul
Come on, he only said 49%, so he’s saying we have a 51% chance of success, so the glass is half full, maybe not half full of a cat, but nonetheless ...
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:45:19 PM PST
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Scythian
To: Scythian
I guess I shouldn’t bother paying off any credit cards. ;-)
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:45:21 PM PST
by
hnorris
(Deserve Victory)
To: Petronski
To: Scythian
What does Hari Seldon predict?..........................
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:46:46 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Zimbabwe has removed 12 zeroes from its currency. We need to remove ONE from the White House......)
To: Scythian
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:46:49 PM PST
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PGalt
To: utherdoul
HUH?
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:46:54 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Scythian
49% ?? How can you go wrong with that prediction??! It either will or it won’t, 50/50.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:47:00 PM PST
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hobson
To: Constitution Day
The missing O is for Obama!
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02/18/2009 1:47:17 PM PST
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Petronski
(For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
To: hobson
LOL, I never thought of that, oh well, okay, a stupid post, you’re right .... move on, nothing to see here folks, my bad
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02/18/2009 1:47:51 PM PST
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Scythian
To: Petronski
The missing O is for Obama! 
To: Scythian
At the expense of future generations, today's CEOs, bankers and politicians are destroying our future in so many ways (financial, chemical, environmental, plundering of fossil fuels, etc.) that it is a challenge to imagine a scenario where western civilization even survives in its current form. Yikes!
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:51:09 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(The closer global warming is exposed as hoax, the more hysterical it's proponents become...)
To: Constitution Day
>>Encomic Crisis<<
It's Engrish. Like this....
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:52:21 PM PST
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netmilsmom
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
To: Scythian
A flaming leftist, his book Guns, Germs and Steel was all about multiculturalistic relativism, although I did like the parts about domesticatable animals and why Eurasia was better situated to support civilization than North America.
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02/18/2009 1:53:08 PM PST
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Jagman
(POTUS Interruptus: The natural way to prevent unwanted stimulus packages!)
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