Due for a Collapse?

Stock markets are crashing everywhere and here is a news for you. and this is news I found at The Economic Times.

Having readied the world's tallest building, "Burj Dubai", Dubai is all set to build another whopping one, this tower rising one km high towards the sky. It will have more than 200 floors. Once finished, its height would be two to three times those of the skyscrapers that line the streets of New York and Chicago. It will be made of four towers within one single structure, and will be surrounded by another 40 towers.

When I read about anything that happens inside man, I think of V.S.Ramachandran's "Phantoms in the Brain". And when I read about anything that happens outside man, I think of Jared Diamond's "Collapse'. They are so influential with me.

In "Collapse", Diamond writes that all the civilizations that are due for a fall, build large, tall, megalomaniac structures.

I think the civilization as we know it, the western civilization, is due for a fall, and I pray it does not happen in my lifetime, or in my son's.

Someone please pick up that book and find what Diamond really says about this and the solutions that he offers.