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Sources and resources:

excerpts and summary

Some notes:

In 2005 Jared Diamond published Collapse(Viking)
in which he catalogues impressively the ways that certain societies have
marched inexorably to failure, even when they possessed considerable ingenuity.

T. Homer-Dixon - an authority on conflict studies - published The
Ingenuity Gap in August 2001 (Random House). He contends that the
divide between the world's problems and available resources, and between rich
and poor nations breeds political disintegration, even terror, and felt that
new ideas are vital for averting escalated conflict.

Clive Ponting published A green history of the World
(Penguin 1993). It is rich in detail and learning, and is concerned mainly with
negative outcomes.

Ronald Wright published A short history of progress
(Anansi 2004) which gives a general description of the progress trap.

Adam Curtis' BBC documentary The Trap is a
relevant description of administrative policies that counter problems with
methods that lead inevitably to similar problems.

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