National Geographic grantee and Explorer-in-Residence Emeritus Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Collapse: How Societies ...

Jared Diamond is an American scientist and the author of the bestselling ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed’ and ‘The ...

“It doesn’t take long,” for a civilization to collapse, he added, citing Jared Diamond’s 2011 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. “It says all the things you need for ...