The stake is important and delivers is with the height of this one: exceptional ! Moreover, he was written by the best american specialist on this subject.

The environmental stakes with which our companies are confronted today, relate to all peoples and it is in the light of the history like science, which Jared Diamond guides us in an essential reflexion for our becoming collective!

On more than 650 pages, it explains us in detail the stakes of modern ecology, while analyzing the various difficulties, why the human societies were regularly obliged to raise to guarantee their evolution and sometimes even their survival!

The question that it us installation is simple: "At will the current rate/rhythm of the demographic growth, and particularly of the increase in the economic needs, health and in energy, our contemporary civilisations be able to survive tomorrow? "

For Jared Diamond, the answer is formulated through a turn of the world in space and time: from the companies disappeared from last (Easter Islands, of Pitcairn and Henderson; the Indians mimbres and anasazis of the south-west of the United States; companies ugly and INCA; the colonies Vikings of Greenland) at the companies weakened of today (Rwanda, Haiti and Saint-Domingue, China, Montana and Australia) while passing by the companies which knew, at a given moment, to stop their collapse (New Guinea, Tikopia and Japan of the Tokugawa era).....

With Alimenthus, discover all the stakes of a durable food and the food one!

Editor: Gallimard Nrf tests - Date of publication: February 2007
Format: 160 X 230 - a Number of pages: 660