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Book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
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  1. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Oral traditions of the islanders are obsessed with cannibalism; the most inflammatory taunt that could be snarled at an enemy was "The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth.
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  2. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for theirs.
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  3. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Severe problems of overpopulation, environmental impact, and climate change cannot persist indefinitely: sooner or later they are likely to resolve themselves, whether in the manner of Rwanda or in some other manner not of our devising, if we don't succeed in solving them by our own actions.
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  4. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    society's structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole.
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  5. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    a society's fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices.
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  6. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    Montana would have been better off in the long run if it had never mined copper at all but had just imported it from Chile, leaving the resulting problems to the Chileans! It
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