The oldest answered question in the social sciences is ‘Why do societies collapse?’. I advance a theory of the collapse of societies that is based on self-organized criticality, which is a nonlinear process tha...
Not only has climate change contributed to the collapse of ancient societies, but environmental reactions caused by human intervention have also played a significant role in the collapse of societies. Fifteen hundred years ago, the ancient Nazca cut down "huarango" (a kind of tree) to make more...
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it depended?” was the question that started Jared Diamonds urge todofurther research on societal collapses (392). His urge to write about this topic resulted from a conversation he had about the collapse of Easter Islandsociety. In this piece of Diamonds “WhyDoSomeSocietiesMakeDisastrousDec...
rich societies 第二步,段落定位。题干问及“富裕社会的人倾向于少生小孩的原因”,根据定位词,定位至第五段第二、三句:“In rich countries, people often have opposite logic mind. Governments now enact the elderly-care policies, reducing the heavy burdens of many couples and also diminishing the need...
we know that Soviets’ growth was not sustainable, and eventually caused its regime to collapse.Th...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. The article reviews the book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," by Jared Diamond. Shaw,S Jane - 《Independent Review》 被引量: 185发表: 2006年 Perspective on Diamond\\u27s \\u22Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or...
Kwak thinks parasitology could take inspiration from disciplines like entomology, which have amateur societies that naturally recruit people to careers studying insects. “You can’t just take a butterfly net out and catch ticks,” he acknowledges, but plenty of hands-on parasite activ...
Half the troubles of mankind come from ignorance—ignorance which is systematically organized with societies for its support and newspapers for its dissemination-ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in willfully ignoring the things that are already known. There are certain physical...
The existence of a minority ruling class is, it must be stressed, a universal feature of all organized societies of which we have any record. It holds no matter what the social and political forms—whether the society is feudal or capitalist or slave or collectivist, monarchical or oligarchic...