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The world's environmental problems will get resolved, in one way or another, within the lifetimes of the children and young adults alive today," [Jared Diamond] writes. "The only question is whether they will become resolved in pleasant ways of our own choice, or in unpleasant ways not of our choice, such as warfare, genocide, starvation, disease epidemics, and collapses of societies." The Rwandan genocide, he points out, owed a lot to chronic overpopulation and conflict over scarce land...
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Trouble Ahead
Trouble ahead
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or surviveJared DiamondAllen Lane, the Penguin Press, 575pp, £20Ancient peoples ravaged their environments, and paid a heavy price. MARK LYNAS wonders if we will learn from the pas...See the full content of this document
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