Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, written by Jared Diamond, a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, poses his opinion on how human endeavors have impacted climate change throughout history. The author uses the Maori, located in New Zealand, and the Europeans, to illustrate the influences of globalization. Before the Europeans arrived, the Maori rarely engaged in wars, due to the modesty of agriculture productivity and their staple …show more content…
The author, Jared Diamond, supports this claim by stating that when Europeans settled in the Americas, they depleted resources during a time of climate change instigating collapse. The second author, Richard A. Muller, suggests that burning carbon has become a popular source of energy; causing concern for climate change, particularly global warming. He also mentions the fears of biological terrorism. Lastly, John Aberth explains how the expansion of trade routes, involving globalization, has caused worldwide epidemics among societies during medieval