Ignore also his correct but unsurprising musings about the dangerous threats facing humanity (nuclear weapons, climate change, resource depletion and inequality). Ignore his attempts to force the therapeutic 12-step onto history. Though the analysis stumbles, the virtues of Diamond's storytelling shine through. Moisés Naím of The Washington Post wrote, "In the same way that his previous and far more rigorous work, Guns, Germs, and Steel, suffered from an excessive reliance on geography to explain complex, multidimensional events, Upheaval suffers from an over-reliance on psychology. He also concludes that the United States is a country in which crises are getting worse. His unexpected conclusion is that individuals do learn from crisis but countries seldom do. Diamond also tries to understand the ways in which individuals learn to cope with personal traumas and how these approaches can be applied to nations. To support his analysis with real-world examples, Diamond investigates past crises that have hit such countries as Finland, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, Australia, and the United States. Diamond attempts to analyze devastating crises (political, economic, civil, ecological, etc.) that may destroy whole countries and the multiple reasons causing them. Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change is a 2019 nonfiction book by American scientist Jared Diamond.
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