I never thought about the end of our ancestors in the way that the article is describing what could have happen to them. I always admire the man from the past because inside of me I had the belief that they did have a harmonious relationship with our environment but I never thought possible the idea that they could have people dying of starvation. Diamond has a lot of sense in the possibilities that he describes that conducted the old societies to collapse. In some point I can agree now in saying that this might be a very similar situation that we are living now and can lead us to our own end. One of the differences between the past communities and ours nowadays is that they might have been more ignorant than us, and that the hunger for power was not as great as it is today. At the same time it is true that they did not have the technology that we have now, that could save us or accelerate this collapse. It is ironic but at the same time that technology can be helpful to us it can also be harmful. The truth is that some of those societies did not survive and it is a mystery to really find out how the relationship between man and environment was.
We can not compare ourselves to our ancestors. Times and human needs are different and in the past years the major problem was to survive; to us the actual problem is who’s got more power. Another factor is that climate changes have always been present and if we see ourselves like an animal species (what we really are) we can or can not adapt to climate changes or the new conditions around us. We can also add that the society’s response to a threat depends on its political, economic, social and cultural values. I consider these factors to be manageable, but it is more difficult to deal with ecosystems-climate problems.
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