Book: 20211206 to 20220115, "Collapse" by Jared Diamond
20211207 - Prologue : a tale of two farms Two farms;Collapses, past and present;Vanished Edens?;A five-point framework;Businesses and the environment;The comparative method;Plan of the book 5-point framework: Environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, friendly trade partners, and the society's response to its environmental problems. Local collapse is not likely to happen today. But economy decline is a huge threat. Can human survive from global warming? Can people keep international order? Can technology develop (such self-driving) fast enough to cover major threats? part. 1. Modern Montana 20211211 - 1. Under Montana's big sky Stan Falkow's story;Montana and me;Why begin with Montana?;Montana's economic history;Mining;Forests;Soil;Water;Native and non-native species;Differing visions;Attitudes towards regulation;Rick Laible's story;Chip Pigman's story;Tim Huls's story;John Cook's story;Montana, model of the world We should not follow our h