Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Collapse assignment #1

After reading about the easter island, something intresting i noticed was that these polynesian indiginous people were able to build 20 foot structures without any form technoligy. what i also found intresting was the island ecosystem was going through a change deforestation occured and extinction of plants happened.

Comparing what happened to this civilization to our own, i see us going in the same direction because we are currently going throught a state of global warming and this could possibly lead to our own dissaperence off the face of the earth. the differences are extremly visable, our society is dependent on industrialistic machinary. without it our society would collapse resulting in a demise in our population. On the other hand the eatser island people were hunter and gather's depending on there enviroment only to survive and relying on each other.

I can also connect this to when dinosaurs roamed the planet, they were also hunters and gather's and become extinct by a natural disaster.

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