Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
This Article explores the concept of sustainability of societies and how they fail or succeed from the changes around them both economic and environmental.
He provides examples of societies that grew into mighty empires which build massive temples and palaces and then disappear leaving only the scattered fractional populations and remanents, evidence of what used to be. Most of these collapses have suspected by paleontologists, historians and many others to be at "least partly triggered by ecological problems: people inadvertently destroying environmental resources on which their societies depend... unintended suicide-ecocide." Diamond goes on to explain that an event like this would usually be followed by a events of positive feedback that would further fuel the collapse. It is their cultural morals which decide wether they may survive or disappear.
From section 42 of Sources: Environmental Studies by Thomas Easton
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