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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> And it is possible you have miscued on the book.  Half of the entire text of
> this very, very long book is devoted to societies that recognized cultural 
> and ecological disasters and avoided them ... and prospered for thousands 
> of  years.  The subtitle is more descriptive of the book "How Societies 
> Choose to Fail or Succeed".

James, I accept without a reading what you and Don tell me. What shall we 
do about the warnings beyond what we here on the homestead list espouse? 
Has Diamond caused any good change? I do not fault him if not. Millions of 
us are aware of many things that need to be changed. Not many are doing much.