Greenland: A Controlled Experiment in Collapse
Brett S. ChappellLearnings,SustainabilityArctic History,Climate Adaptation,Cultural Adaptation,Environmental Lessons,Greenland,Historical Collapse,Inuit History,Jared Diamond,Little Ice Age,Medieval History,Societal Resilience,Stewardship,Sustainable History,Viking History
Twenty years ago I read Jared Diamond’s Collapse. The story of Norse Greenland still matters because it shows how societies rarely fail suddenly. They fail slowly, through reasonable decisions that no longer fit a changing world.