How a Clever World Could Self-Destruct

It would be useful if, in two weeks, the Prime Minister attended a keynote address on May 29 at the Sydney Writers’ Festival. It will be delivered by the American geographer Professor Jared Diamond, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose new book, Collapse, charts the history of civilisation collapse caused by environmental failure. Diamond sees history repeating itself. Australia gets an entire chapter because of its growing and unsustainable divide between consumer wealth and environmental poverty.
Sydney Morning Herald