{"id":935,"date":"2011-10-18T04:41:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2011-10-18T04:41:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:41:21","slug":"seven-billion-humans-jared-diamonds-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/seven-billion-humans-jared-diamonds-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Billion Humans & Jared Diamond's "Collapse""},"content":{"rendered":"

So various news organizations are reporting that our planet is now home to this mythical number of seven billion humans, mythical in that we don’t know that for sure, but it’s a good guess, and all its implications. I still regard Jared Diamond’s\u00a0Collapse<\/em> as one of the best big-picture nonfiction books I’ve read in a long time. He does a great job of analyzing how various cultures overused their resources, which led to their demise: the Mayans, the Easter Island natives, etc. Tim Flannery’s Here on Earth<\/em> is in that vein as well, though focused on a myriad other topics besides societal collapse. Both are books we should all be reading, and heeding the warnings of. Here’s Jeffrey Sachs on the implications of 7 billion people:
\nhttp:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/17\/opinion\/sachs-global-population\/index.html?hpt=hp_c1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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