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Advantages: rich mine of well researched info Disadvantages: goes on abit, too many boring personal bits, very un-revolutionary recommendations
cases he discusses are, nevertheless, fantastically researched and very well described (even if he does go on a bit in places). He describes several collapsed past and modern societies of different complexities. He also mentions some successes of which later.
The past societies include Easter Island, Pitcairn, Anasazi (American South-West civilisation connected to Chaco Canyon), Yucatan Maya and the Norse in Greenland. I have to say that after reading the Easter Island and the Pitcairn account with interest I had to struggle with the Anasazi and the Maya chapters, they seemed to be reiterating essentially the same albeit more complicated story in different guises and were frankly bit boring. The chapters devoted to the Viking fate in Greenland, with comparisons with their more successful stories in the Shetlands, Faeroes and Iceland ...
