Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, ch. 16 "The World as a Polder" (2005) - Diamond, Jared | WIST Quotations
What are the choices that we must make if we are now to succeed, and not to fail? [...] Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial to tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can…
