Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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    The environmental change and the collapse of Easter Island Ruud Coumans In this paper, we will search for an explanation of the mystical collapse of society on Easter Island, during the 18th century. We’ll use the second chapter for the book “Collapse. How Society Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jared Diamond. First we will summarize some of the evidence supporting the explanatory framework of the author to give an outline of the situation. Then we will state the research question. After that we

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    COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond attempts to answer the question, “What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?” This book is divided into four main sections, and I’ll be talking about the most important sections and the most important chapters in it. The first section starts off with Diamond going in to the present in the United States. He starts off with the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. While it seems untouched, with endless

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    Collapse Final Question One In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond outlines five factors that may lead to a societal collapse: climate change, hostile neighbors, loss of trading partners, environmental damage, and a society’s response to its problems. The climate change Diamond is talking about here refers to natural fluctuations in weather; fifty years of great weather can lead to a population boom, but followed by fifty years of bad weather it can

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    The disintegration of some of the most complex and successful societies in history are explored in the Book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Among these failures is the Polynesians of Easter Island, the People of Pitcairn and Henderson Islands, the Western North American Anasazi, the Central American Maya, and the Greenland Norse. Each of these societies display elements of Diamond's theory that through climate change, hostile neighbors, trade partners, environmental

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    Book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Author: Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed “If people destroy something replaceable by mankind their called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable by God, they are called developers.” – Joseph Wood Krutch One of mankind’s greatest achievements is the development and organization of diversified societies that regulate life and ethical values for those enticed within it. Societies bring interpersonal

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    Although Greenland and Australia are thousands of miles apart and very different in geography, they also have many similarities. In his book “Collapse”, Jared Diamond shows that both countries have the five factors that can contribute to a society’s collapse. Greenland’s Norse society already collapsed a long time ago, while Australia is still a First World country going strong. If some things there don’t change, the country’s living standard will go down and there could be major problems.

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    civilizations succeed or fail according to how they interact with the environment, that “success and persistence, he argued, depend largely on how societies interact with their environments and on how they respond to problems” (Withgott & Laposata, 2014). In other words, if we do not take care of the environment we will not succeed and we as society will fail or collapse. For instance, how Easter Island civilization collapsed after they degraded the environment. For this reason, how we interact with

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    In Collapse, by Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, explains why some societies fail and why others succeed by identifying five factors contributing to societal collapse: environmental damage, climate change, hostile neighbors, friendly trade and society's response to its environmental problems. The first four factors do not always prove to be detrimental, but the fifth factor seems to determine the course of the society. The response to environmental problems lies

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    book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond examines and compares modern and past societies and examines their their collapse and survival. He begins the prologue with a comparison of Huls Farm, A successful modern farm in western U.S. state of Montana and Gardar farm, a former manor farm in southwestern Greenland which was abandoned due to the collapse of the Norse Greenland Society. The comparison of these two civilizations was to illustrate that modern societies with

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    The​ ​novel​ ​​Collapse: ​ ​ How ​ ​ Societies ​ ​ Choose ​ ​ to ​ ​ Fail ​ ​ or ​ ​ Succeed ​ ​​ explores​ ​the​ ​causes​ ​of societal​ ​collapse​ ​throughout​ ​history​ ​from​ ​the​ ​perspective​ ​of​ ​the​ ​author​,​​ ​Jared​ ​Diamond.​ ​This novel​ ​was​ ​written​ ​to​ ​discuss​ ​the​ ​possible​ ​reasons​ ​why​ ​so​ ​many​ ​historical​ ​civilizations​ ​cease​ ​to exist​ ​today​.​​ ​Diamond​ ​defines​ ​collapse​ ​as​ ​“a​ ​drastic​ ​decrease​ ​in​ ​human​ ​population​ ​size​ ​and

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