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I wonder how his analysis stacks up next to Dymitri Orlov's 'Reinventing Collapse' - http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk


Diamond's five factors that contribute to collapse: climate change, hostile neighbors, collapse of essential trading partners, environmental problems, and failure to adapt to environmental issues.

I'd throw resource depletion into the "environmental problems/issues" bucket (interesting that he distinguishes this from "climate change" now that I look at it again).

A few other views on "problems facing the world" based on exhaustive research (viz: a quick Web search): http://aspdeveloper.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/10-problems-or-... http://www.globalissues.org/ http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/wbp

My own off-the-top-of-my-head list: Overpopulation, resource depletion, environmental contamination, anthropogenic climate change, societal inequities, WMD proliferation (particularly to non-state actors and rogue states), general systemic fragility/complexity, social intransigence in the face of many such issues (e.g.: US counterfactual denial political movements, rightist movements in various EU states, militant Islamist movements, etc.), government / corporate / social corruption, breakdown of social institutions, failures in universal education (primary, secondary, and higher). In no particular order.




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