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Later in the summer, I got around to watch the broadcast of "Guns, is Indocin addictive, Where can i order Indocin without prescription, Germs and Steel", based on Jared Diamond's book, order Indocin from mexican pharmacy, Indocin results, on PBS. I found it entertaining, and, as part of my usual library circulation regimen, ordered a copy of Collapse, by Jared Diamond. With my predisposition towards systems science, something didn't feel right. A review of Collapse by Richard Heinberg seems to lean similarly, with a pointer towards Tainter's work:

Diamond refers on only three occasions (and then briefly) to Joseph Tainter' s classic The Collapse of Complex Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1988), which is widely considered the standard work on the subject, Buy Indocin Without Prescription. He rightly criticizes Tainter for underemphasizing the role of environmental factors — especially resource depletion — in previous instances of collapse.

However, Diamond does not take the time to explain Tainter's valuable contributions to the discussion. It is difficult for the reader to have the sense of building on a previous theory without an understanding of what the previous theory is. Theory was in fact one of the great strengths of Tainter 's book: he surveyed all known complex societies, and systematically assessed dozens of prior serious discussions of collapse (including the ideas of Arnold Toynbee, Elman Service, Pitirim Sorokin, and Alfred Kroeber), so that when he got around to introducing his own hypothesis (which can be summarized as the inevitability of the diminishing of returns on societal investments in complexity) the reader felt a sense of participation in the refinement of our collective understanding of the problem. This doesn't happen to nearly the same degree in Collapse Buy Indocin Without Prescription, . Why. Perhaps Diamond was trying to avoid sounding academic and wanted to write in such a way that the maximum number of readers would commit themselves to the task of wading through a long book on a dreary subject. But something was sacrificed in the process.


This view seems to be further supported by a copy of 1996 article on "Complexity, Problem Solving and Sustainable Societies", posted on the Die Off web site. I ordered Tainter's 1988 The Collapse of Complex Societies book, and the 2003 Allen, Tainter & Hoekstra Supply-Side Sustainability.

From the review cited above, the key idea really is "diminishing of returns on societal investments in complexity", Buy Indocin Without Prescription. The 2003 book is less terse than the 1999 issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science but still requires some careful studying to crack the content. I've now got a "simple" example that tells the story, that I'm trying out in various presentations ... that people seem to understand. When it's polished, I'll write it up.

To return to this morning's phone call with Jennifer ... she said that the her copy of Supply-Side Sustainability just arrived. We're going to meet at the Fuschl Conversation sponsored by the International Federation for Systems Research in Austria in a few weeks. I'm sure that we'll have lots to discuss, even before I make to Hull 9 days later.

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