Monday, January 14, 2019
Read slowly or you may collapse
Jared, a Rhetorical Lesson-Giverhttps://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/jared-a-rhetorical-lesson-giver-5c07b08e8ecd
Abstract:
This book is a long collection of cases of civilizations or countries that failed, how they failed, what were the causes of their failing (plus a few success stories). This insistence on failing makes it very pessimistic in many ways. But the second characteristic is that the book does not explore the past for itself, but it is exploring the past to draw lessons for the present. The basic assumption is thus that the present world is on the brink of failing or collapsing. That takes a lot of value from the book because then the cases are understood as being illustrations if not arguments for the importance of climate change in human history, and the importance of environmental sustainability. And actually, we are brought to thinking that some cases have been over-exploited in that direction; The main shortcoming is that at times the book is retrospective. It does not try to understand what happened in the past, but it looks at it with a modern vision, a modern interpretation, something that is anachronistic in the past situations that are concerned.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
Research Interests:
Climate Change, Maya Art, Vikings, Greenland, Montana History et Vinland
Publication Name: Medium.com
Research Interests:
Climate Change, Maya Art, Vikings, Greenland, Montana History et Vinland
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 8:13 AM 
