Jared Diamond Looks At How Societies Blow It
The Author of Guns germs and Steelcontinues to ask interesting questions and draws on a fact pointed out by Tim Flannery in The Future Eaters, that it is possible for societies to act in their own, long term worst possible interests, yet not be able to stop themselves.

He identifies what he calls "four somewhat fuzzily delineated categories".

• First of all, a group may fail to anticipate a problem before the problem actually arrives.
• Secondly, when the problem arrives, the group may fail to perceive the problem