Part B Anthropology 6) Collapse In Collapse Jared Diamond addresses the environmental and economic problems that societies encounter during their development. Diamond makes it very clear that no society is safe from a collapse and that the problems that societies face should not be underestimated or the results could be catastrophic (Diamond 2011:2). The definition that Diamond gives for a collapse is “a drastic decrease in human population size and /or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended period of time” (Diamond 2015:3). Diamond provides his readers with examples of many different societies and cultures that he believes to be interconnected through their fates and eventual downfalls. Different
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In most of the cases the collapse is caused for a number of reasons. The negative impacts off all of the parts of the five-point framework that apply to a civilization add together in order to break apart any form of social complexity that was developed and cause the downfall of the civilization. I have learned from reading Collapse that having adaptability is crucial from a survival standpoint. If a civilization relies on one type of crop and a fungus develops that kills that crop which is what happened with the Irish Potato Famine than that country or civilization might be in trouble. In the modern day we are hugely dependent on oil. If all of the oil reserves were to become depleted, we would either need to start using other energy resources or suffer. The five-point framework does not discriminate. The probability that a society collapses does not depend on size, location, or social complexity. If we want to thrive we must learn from the past and we must learn how to overcome challenges as a whole community with our goals directed towards the welfare of the entire society as a
In most of the cases the collapse is caused for a number of reasons. The negative impacts off all of the parts of the five-point framework that apply to a civilization add together in order to break apart any form of social complexity that was developed and cause the downfall of the civilization. I have learned from reading Collapse that having adaptability is crucial from a survival standpoint. If a civilization relies on one type of crop and a fungus develops that kills that crop which is what happened with the Irish Potato Famine than that country or civilization might be in trouble. In the modern day we are hugely dependent on oil. If all of the oil reserves were to become depleted, we would either need to start using other energy resources or suffer. The five-point framework does not discriminate. The probability that a society collapses does not depend on size, location, or social complexity. If we want to thrive we must learn from the past and we must learn how to overcome challenges as a whole community with our goals directed towards the welfare of the entire society as a