Interesting Book

I've just come across an interesting book. Collapse by Jared Diamond. He is the author of Guns, Germs and Steel. This new book as GGS did is dominated by social geography and anthropology. This book explores the reasons why civalizations fail and are destroyed. Disturbingly the answer is the using up of primary energy resources. For many of these societies the main fuel was wood. And as you can guess this book takes an unflinching look at our own western/global civarlization. Read the review of someone who has already read the book at The Guardian Unlimited Books - I'd put the link in but it's too long and it messes up the blog.

Collapse seems to present a similar argument to another apocalyptic book called The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. Scarey but compelling reading too.