"Collapse"

Well this week’s blog was about the book “Collapse” by Jared Diamond. I thought the whole thing was pretty interesting and the twelve ways of the fate of human societies. It showed how societies choose to surrender or fail. I totally agreed with all of his topics because I think each of them have a very large impact on our environment, but at the same time I felt some were more important than others. One in particular that really stood out to me was the destroying of natural habitats. I think that in order to run a healthy world we need our natural habitats for our animals as well as ourselves. They are vital to the environment, especially trees in which give us our oxygen. Without having these habitats our animals unfortunately die and our world would become just plain cement and city life. It does not work well with the balance of both environments, which means that the destroying of our natural habitats is probably the worst thing that can happen. On the other hand, another problem I think that stands out is the population impact. Our world is highly populated, some places more than others. We are a growing world and day by day more women are giving birth to more babies. Over population can have a HUGE impact on society. I mean can you imagine what that can do? Lack of food, water, shelter and much more. We wouldn’t have the resources to accommodate all the population plus that adds on to the fact that we are over producing. We are over producing our natural resources, therefore having a significant impact on the world. I mean all these problems lead to another problem, and it is unfortunate that we face these dilemmas. I think that it is up to us humans to know what the right thing to do is and to make wise decisions. We all need to stop taking our earth for granted and start realizing that it won’t be here forever.