In — (Ed.), Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed [Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed] (— Trans.).
If we support scepticism, we choose to fail before we have even started.
Reverting to the inference of his subtitle ("how societies choose to fail or survive"), he briefly reviews the intriguing history of the Netherlands, the country with the highest level of environmental awareness and membership of environmental organisations anywhere in the world.
The last two fragilisers are not strictly derived from Taleb, but are rather inspired by Jared Diamond's fascinating book "Collapse" (Diamond 2005) on "how societies choose to fail or succeed".
Then Jared Diamond started raising interesting and serious questions in his book, Collapse, about how societies' chose to fail or succeed, which now puts in question the inevitably of human survivability.
Twitter has the Fail Whale, Google had its own version of the Fail Whale for Google Books Digg chose to go with the Fail Ox, and Blippy took inspiration from Double Rainbows.
The majority of diets are proven to fail, so choosing to add foods, rather than take them away, may be a sneaky, smart way to overcome the struggle-filled weight loss battle.
They gave many educators the choice I wrote about thirty years ago — fail, cut corners, or cheat — and many chose not to fail.
COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.
In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond shows how ecological crisis is often the prelude to social catatrosphe.
The story of the Eastern and Western Settlements of Greenland is told in Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (Viking; $29.95).
