Pulitzer Prize Winner Chronicles Failed Civilizations

Morning Edition, January 10, 2005 ¡¤ Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond discusses his new book Collapse. The book discusses why some great societies in history succeeded while others failed, and what 21st century America could learn from them.

You can listen to the interview here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4276179
a big chunk of the interview is on why the Maya civilization disappeared.