A Short History of Progress

A concise book that doesn't delve deeper into the subject but provides introductory material. However, it didn't offer anything new for me, leaving me somewhat disappointed.
3.5/5

‰ЫПWe have the tools and the means to share resources, clean up pollution, dispense basic health care and birth control, set economic limits in line with natural ones. If we don‰ЫЄt do these things now, while we prosper, we will never be able to do them when times get hard. Our fate will twist out of our hands. And this new century will not grow very old before we enter an age of chaos and collapse that will dwarf all the dark ages in our past.‰Ыќ Yeehaw!

An excellent short history to the limits to the complexity of civilizations. Similar too, but tighter than, Jared Diamond's Collapse.