Last Americans : Environmental Collapse and the end of civilization
Explanation:
Jared Diamond is born in Boston on 1937. He is a physiologist, ecologist, and a prolific writer. Diamond has published hundreds of articles that is about science. Not only that Diamond is a writer, but he also received his Bachelor’s Degree at Harvard University in 1958 and PHD at Cambridge University in 1961. Diamond is currently working at UCLA as a professor of geography and physiology. He has done many research about ecology and the evolutionary of biology in New Guinea and many other southwest Pacific islands.
he published hundreds of articles, but he also wrote many essay in his life. One of his essay that he shared to the public is called, “The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization.” Diamond wrote this essay on June 2003. The essay that Diamond wrote is about the environment and how it is failing miserably.
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: Collapse can occur when societies overshoot the carrying capacity of their environment. ... As population increases, the supply of labour outstrips demand, workers become cheap and society becomes top-heavy
Which (if any) of the perspectives in the provided texts rings most true for you? Why?
- The change in conditions for african americans not happened in the south post civil war, as they became free. the enactment of the jim crow laws still discriminates african americans until the civil rights movement.
- In politics, hiram revels became the first african american to be in the u.s. senate. some wealthy african americans were allowed to own property and work, but the majority were poor and still faced a harsh reality until the 1960s.
Do you believe that history repeats itself? Why or why not?
History has a tendency to repeat itself. As memory fades, events from the past can become events of the present. Some, like author William Strauss and historian Neil Howe, argue that this is due to the cyclical nature of history — history repeats itself and flows based on the generations
