Jared Diamond is a biologist whose area of expertise is birds. His studies took him to Papua New Guinea‚ where he utilized his skills to study all of the bird species inhabiting the island. One day‚ a PNG inhabitant‚ Yali‚ came up and asked Diamond a question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond argues that the answer to Yali’s question wasn’t racial inequality like so many people assume it is. Diamond began his research
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In my opinion‚ the Easter Islanders used the trees for numerous daily necessities such as building materials for houses‚ to build canoes‚ clothing‚ and logs to move their massive statues. The Easter Islanders used the trees at an unsustainable rate‚ depleting their resource. Depleting the tree resource became more problematic for the Easter Islanders‚ because it led other agricultural resources to decline as well. As their resources declined‚ it brought violence and warfare to the civilization.
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Jaskaran Sandhu Mrs. Sproul APES 3B September 17‚ 2014 Easter Island and the Lorax Essay From the time when industrialization‚ technology developed human population began to destroy the nature for their benefits in trades‚ construction‚ supplies etc… Some examples of that idea includes the fictional environmental video “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss of 1972 and the real story of “Easter’s End” both have a similar background. The article “Easter Island’s End” shows how nature can get destroyed by human’s
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Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean near South America‚ suffered the Tragedy of the Commons‚ which caused the natives of Easter Island to go extinct. The tragedy of the commons is what happens when people don’t communicate and are not conservative of their resources. The islanders cut down all of their trees‚ resulting in the loss of many resources. According to Ralph Faggotter‚ when the people arrived‚ there were large forests and palm trees‚ along with many species of birds and seals.
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In Jared Diamond’s "Twilight at Easter‚" we travel across the mysterious Easter Island as he describes the most intriguing fact about this place: the island consists of monolithic stone statues that had once been found all over the island despite the apparent lack of means to create them or ways of transporting them to their different coastal locations. This central mystery of standing statues had been explored since the earliest recorded European contact by Jacob Rogeveen in 1722. While the mystery
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Jared Diamond Essay/Notes –Pizarro and the Inca emperor‚ Atahualpa The European nation relationships first encounter was between the Inca emperor‚ Atahualpa and the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Francisco Pizarro had come with an army of 108 men‚ against Atahualpa’s army of 80‚000. Francisco Pizarro believed in the same similar concepts to manifest destiny. He (and his army) massacred many‚ by tricking the emperor to come unarmed. Furthermore he confused the Indians with loud noises
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It is interesting to note that many advanced societies and civilization fell. Why is that? Jared Diamond believes that environmental degradation is the reason for past flourishing societies to collapse. He defines the term collapse as: “A drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity‚ over a considerable area‚ for an extended time” (p. 348). In essence‚ Diamond believes that the trouble we are having in society now‚ leads back to environmental deterioration
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Easter Island is a perfect example of a cultural conflict in a society‚ mainly because it is the most isolated island and eco system. Therefore‚ there were no external effect and influence. When the Spaniards came to the island in the 19th century they were surprised that the natives only had small damaged canoes which raised a lot of question about how could they
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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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Jared Diamond explains why geographic luck is the leading cause to an unequal world which gave certain countries advantages and other’s disadvantages. Have you ever wondered why some parts of the world are much more developed than others? Well‚ to find the answer‚ we’ll have to trace this question all the way back to ancient times. Jared Diamond explains that the reason for this revolves around geographic luck‚ to be more specific; the shapes of the continents‚ steel‚ horses and writing are primary
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