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Why societies collapse | Jared Diamond

One of the reasons why societies collapse is if there is a conflict between the short term interests of the elites and the long term interests of the society as a whole, says Jared Diamond.
We could give as an example the elites that control the fossil fuel industry. Their short term interests definitely are in conflict with the long term interests of the rest of us.