Jared Diamond talks about the collapse of modern society in his A Tale of Two Farms. He demostrates many different examples of past and recent collapses of society which were due for a various reasons but mostly due to environment. I believe that all societies and civilization has their course in history and is limited in order to give rise to new and different people. Unfortunately now society or what we consider as civilization is no longer a segragated community in some corner of the world. Society is now global and involves all humans and all walks of life. Our faliure will come at a greater scale and at a greater cost. Many people continue to believe that never could the world, or a society like the United States collapse on itself but many advanced societies in the past have already proven that such beliefs are dangerous. As Diamond stated, “The societies that ended up collapsing were (like the Maya ) among the most creative and (for a time) advanced and successful of their times, rather than stupid and primitive”. Unfortunately for the Mayans, that wasn’t enough to survive collapse. True, we are much different from other societies in the past with advanced science, technology, and the knowledge of the past but as Diamond was well aware of, we also have some major factors that promote us to collapse just as eaisily if not easier. We have become a globalized society meaning that what effects one country effects the rest. Also due to our advance knowledge and technology, we have increased our populations through modern medicine and thus cause a greater strain on resources.
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