Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised EditionIn Jared Diamonds follow up to the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. As in Guns, Germs, and