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By admin • Mar 23rd, 2006 • Category: Issue Eight: SustainabilityDiamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. 2004. Looks at the role of the environmental and demographic policy decisions regarding ecological issues and weighs the impact of those decisions on the survival or demise of a culture.
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