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By Samina Amir.

KAITLYN GOALEN: In Guns, Germs and Steel, [your argument] really came down to environmental factors . . . . However, your subtitle for Collapse, "How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," takes a very different road. Why the shift?

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DIAMOND: You're absolutely correct. In Guns, Germs and Steel, choice is not at the forefront, where in Collapse, choice is at the forefront. The reason isn't because I changed my mind about the role of choice. It's because the two books are about different problems. Collapse is about problems in individual societies. They are problems like deforestation, which some societies solve and some 

don't solve. It's true that some societies face worse problems than others: If you're in a dry environment, for instance, you're at greater risk for deforestation than if you're in a wet one. But still, these are small-scale societies. The problems are ones which sometimes get solved and sometimes don't.