weekly response 11

Throughout my own life, I have come across many decisions that have had to be made that were very difficult for a child or even young adult to have to make on their own. When it comes to all these difficult decisions I think the one thing that they have in common is how we as individuals deal with them. It’s always a concern that the decisions we make may in fact be positive for us at the current time, but may in fact be negative in the long run or to others as well. Will what’s good for me really be good for other people? Will the decisions I make affect other people at all? This is always what made making decisions difficult for me. I often think and then act quickly upon it not really taking into account how it will affect me in the long run, or how it affects others around me. Sometimes however, I make decisions based on what is the best for the common good and not for myself. It’s always a question in my mind after a decision has already been made whether or not if I had chosen a different route, would the end result have been drastically different? There really is no way in knowing unless we were to go back in time and remake decisions from our past. I often think that there are more then one way to approach any situation, and therefore it’s honestly a crapshoot in whether or not a different reaction would have occurred if another decision had initially been made.
Diamond discusses that the decisions that have been made may have lead to the downfall of past societies. One question that I have is what is the correlation between the human population and the issue of the climate changing drastically? Diamond states that most of the climate change is due to natural forces that are beyond our control. Climate change, for sure has a big influence on the decline of many societies seeing as how many societies depended on the climate for growth of crops and the raising of livestock. Diamond discusses that climate also affects the population due to the fact that people often reproduce in times that were “better”. Lack of “disaster relief” has also caused the downfall of many societies from the past Diamond says. Natural disasters are often caused by climate change, and therefore being unable to cope with such change leaves people of a society unable to continue living as they did previously. I think that in order for societies to strive, and remain strong and preserved, as well as prosper is very necessary to communicate by discussing ideas on how to deal with certain situations if they were to occur. Although we cannot directly stop climate changes from happening, being aware of how to deal with natures natural ways is the only thing that we can do. It is important for societies to become aware of the very things that can harm them the most, and in recognizing these aspects, we only improve the ways in dealing with them later.