Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

numerous societies have dealt with many struggles and conflicts. Global pandemics and climate change are just two of these struggles that society still deals with today. History, particularly the historic backgrounds of ancient, medieval, and modern times, can educate people on solutions to these problems. First, Jared Diamond explains how climate change influences lifestyles of the ancient Maori and medieval Greenland Norse. Second, Richard A. Muller addresses the dangers of the coal global market, it’s origin, and biological terrors that still influence global pandemics today. Lastly, the third author, John Aberth, explains how people dealt with global pandemics during the medieval times. All three authors incorporate one theme: that globalization is the primary cause of climate change and global pandemics throughout history. 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…

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…

advanced modern society, it is hard to believe that civilizations are capable of collapse. Many think that the rise of civilization is an impressive feat. However, in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond outlines the five main factors that cause an entire civilization to fall. The Maya collapse is an example of a society that characterizes four of these factors. The first of these main factors is environmental damage that the inhabitants inflict upon themselves…

In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond describes the experiences of seafaring Vikings and Polynesians. For each group, Diamond argues that the environment played a key role in these people’s success or failure. In this paper, I will first briefly overview the environment’s role in the Polynesian case of Mangareva and the Viking case of Inuit as recounted in Diamond. I will then examine the sources in chapter 6 of Merry Wiesner’s text, Discovering the Global…

prologue of his novel, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”, explores the demise of communities throughout history and how such a thing could occur. He believes, as can be inferred from the title of the book, that societies primarily fail as a result of the decisions they make in response to other issues. In the prologue, “A Tale of Two Farms”, Diamond presents his definition of a collapse, his framework for analyzing a collapse, and how he compares the stories of societies…

The environment and climate have been controversial topics for many people. Environmental and climate damage have caused many societies in the past to collapse. Both videos lecture this week point out the need to keep the environment and climate safe and free from damage. If nothing is done, it can cause major damage on our isolated planet Earth and most importantly negatively human beings. Humans need to understand the importance the environment has on our survival. Jared Diamond is an American…

History influences people’s decisions that would affect the sustainability and climate change issues for the country. The sustainability includes three core parts, which keep the country sustainable which are social, economic, and environmental. Currently, sustainability and climate change are the trending issues that are waiting to be resolved. But in order for them to be resolved, to make the best decision on how to combat these problems, it is good to reference their country’s history to make…

Many of the actions we commit have serious and harmful consequences. These various destructive human acts cannot be ignored. Blindly following a disguised lie is naive and courgadly. We must make ourselves aware of the growing problem. As a society striving for better lives, we cannot ignore these signs. We must step up and do something about them. All of this “progress” being made might make things easier for us now, but will only become a bigger crisis as time goes on. The further we climb…

The easy way to explain it, the maximum population that an area can support without affecting the environment, deterioration, breaking the balance. When putting this on a much bigger level, the impact of what the world able to support us, affecting the society, what people can do to reduce the stress toward the world. Socially, population growth will be one of the biggest stress to the environment, things that we want, need all of them come from the same place. More people mean more need and…

Introduction Is the United States dominance as a country related to what Jared Diamond terms in his book Gun, Germs and Steel as the Yali’s question? Where Mr. Yali Jared Diamond’s New Guinean friend who was a politician asked him the reason why it was mainly the whites who developed so much consignment and brought it to New Guinea but they the black people had little shipment to call their own?” Yali’s use of the term cargo/ shipment/consignment connotes material goods such as steel axes,…