Jared Diamond: "Collapse" (Viking)

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Jared Diamond: "Collapse" (Viking)

All over the world, there are ruins of once-thriving cultures. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Guns, Germs, and Steel” explains how environmental factors have often led to civilizations’ collapse, and talks...

All over the world, there are ruins of once-thriving cultures. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Guns, Germs, and Steel” explains how environmental factors have often led to civilizations’ collapse, and talks about lessons for the modern world.

Guests

Jared Diamond

professor of geography at UCLA

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