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A Short History of Progress
The book A Short History of Progress, written by Ronald Wright and published in 2004, grew out of the 2004 Massey Lectures. It describes in particular how four historical civilizations - those of Easter Island, Sumer, the Maya and Rome - self-destructed due to a lack of foresight and to wrong choices.
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