An eminent biologist and anthropologist Jared Diamond recently  examined a very fundamental question: “Why did some civilizations like that of Easter island, the Maya empire and Greenland Norse collapse in history while others like Iceland and Japan survive for thousands of years?”  It is very important to answer this question for it is for our society to tread carefully so as to avoid the example of the extinct civilizations in the past.

As an example of a failed civilization, (more…)