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The book is called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", and it covers the collapse of Greenland Norse society, not the collapse of Iceland, as t
by ern 15y ago
The book is called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", and it covers the collapse of Greenland Norse society, not the collapse of Iceland, as the article claims.
- yesbabyyes 15y agoIt covers Iceland as well.
- arethuza 15y agoCollapse does spend a fair amount of time discussing Iceland precisely because the society there did not collapse in the same way as the similar society in Greenland even though they had a serious ecological disaster caused by the application of farming techniques suitable for the heavy soils of Scandinavia and the British Isles to the light volcanic soils of Iceland. Arguably Collapse is just as much about societies that avoid collapse as it is about those that did disappear.