Chaos and Coping: Jared Diamond on How Countries Recover
Jared Diamond’s return to the historic theater will not be short on adventure, history, and surprises!
Upheaval in the third in a series, following Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, on what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now Diamond looks at how countries can recover from crises. He has spent years living and speaking the languages in many of the countries he discusses, and as he combines lived experiences with research, he provides both insight into and solutions for crises for the United States, Japan, and the world.
With points and arguments that both sides of the aisle can appreciate and be influenced by, he identifies the most ominous problems and applies a new way of assessing potential risks and outcomes to offer very tangible solutions. Ultimately, he offers hope and optimism based on historical outcomes where everyone won for the betterment of the world.
As the publisher words so well “Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond’s books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal book yet.”
I hope you will join us for this insightful conversation on May 9th.