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To: Arran Yuan who wrote (65559)8/26/2010 9:42:02 PM
From: Arran Yuan2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217592
 
What learned? walt.foreignpolicy.com. A wise man!

The answer? Not much, if any!

To sum up (in Diamond's words):
Human societies and smaller groups make disastrous decisions for a whole sequence of reasons: failure to anticipate a problem, failure to perceive it once it has arisen, failure to attempt to solve it after it has been perceived, and failure to succeed in attempts to solve it."


So we are at "failure to attempt to solve it after it has been perceived."?