[Peakoil-announce] COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

[roland mccall]

Hello All,
just thought I would let you know if
you dont already that that Jared Diamond tommorow will present:

COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Tuesday 31 May, 7pm
Theatre 1, Manning Clark Centre, Union Court, ANU

Diamond is a much acclaimed author and it should
very interesting.

THE LECTURE

The ruined cities, temples and statues of lost civilisations post more than 
famous romantic mysteries - there may be lessons in their collapses which 
were due in part to the types of environmental problems that beset us today. 
The long list of "victims" includes Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Lowland 
Maya, Angkor Wat, Great Zimbabwe, and many others.
In this lecture, Dr Jared Diamond will ask what makes certain societies 
especially vulnerable to collapse? Why didn't their leaders perceive and 
solve their environmental problems? What can we learn from their fates, and 
what can we do differently today to help us avoid their fates?

THE AUTHOR

Dr Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Guns, Germs and 
Steel, is described as the epitome of the celebrity scientist.

With the recent publication of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or 
Succeed, his companion piece to Guns, Germs and Steel, Diamond's ideas will 
reach an ever-widening popular audience. Currently a Professor of Geography 
at UCLA, he is also the author of two other best-selling books, The Third 
Chimpanzee and Why is Sex Fun?

Enquiries:
Diane Whitehead
T: 6125 4144
E: Diane.Whitehead at anu.edu.au


Books will be available for signing.

This lecture is free and open to the public.


http://info.anu.edu.au/Discover_ANU/News_and_Events/Public_Lectures/_Jared_Diamond.asp