Various Readings, (or why I haven’t been posting…)

Just finished the excellent book Collapse by Jared Diamond. I had read portions of his earlier Guns, Germs and Steel, and really liked his approach in that book, too. One of the things that make his book so convincing is his ability to see things from many points of view (the really essential cross-disciplinary approach), to not just see things as an ecologist, but also from the point of view of an economist, a sociologist, military historian, and a even a bit from other standpoints. His work builds upon, and greatly expands works such as Clive Ponting’s A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations.