COLLAPSE? Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

COLLAPSE?


JARED DIAMOND'S FIVE FACTORS

Collapse? explores why some societies fail and others succeed.

In his book, which inspired this exhibition, Jared Diamond identifies five sets of factors that can contribute to a society's collapse:

  • natural changes in the climate
  • environmental damage caused by people themselves (inadvertently or not)
  • a decline in support from neighbors or trading partners
  • hostile neighbors
  • how a society anticipates and reacts to its problems

Visit Collapse? to learn how these factors have impacted past societies and continue to play a role in our contemporary world.


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Jared Diamond's Five Factors cartoon

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