Easters End

Sidney Rogers 3^rd

Easters End

Jared Diamond

                The general point made by Jared Diamond in his work Easers End is that many years ago Easter Island was almost a paradise where people thrived and had a very good society of people and somehow their civilization just vanished. More specifically Diamond argues that this civilization was developed enough to sustain its one life with no outside help because there was no evidence that the islanders had any contact or even knowing of anyone else’s existence, they were completely secluded and had no acts of others could have affected the.  Yet all of a sudden they crashed and burned.  He writes “Are we about to follow their lead?”(Page 426) In this passage, Diamond is suggesting that our society now is somewhat how theirs once was, and because of carelessness they ended up extinct in a way and that if we don’t change out careless ways we can end up with the same fate. In conclusion, it is Diamond’s belief that we have to make sure that we learned from those before us and from their mistakes because is obvious from their giant statues and other things that they had a thriving society, at least for that time, and that because they didn’t think about the things they did and how they effected them, they ended up finishing themselves off and that with the way people are living today, we are doing the same thing.

                In my view, Diamond is right because I have noticed that people are caring less and less about what’s important. For example the things that we need to live, such as nature, animals, water, and other things that we rely on. People take advantage of all of them because they don’t know what it would be like if one day we didn’t have it anymore. In my neighborhood we use to have a bunch of trees that lined the street. They provided a lot of shade in the summer and blocked the street from rain and snow in the winter, but because the leaves from the trees were too messy, everyone chopped them down. No one thought about the fact that now all of our plant is our yards burn up under the hot sun and our grass is never as green. They didn’t think about how snowy our street would be because its rare a snow plow comes down our way, and didn’t think about how much uglier our street looks without them, but hey, the gutters are a little cleaner, that’s all that mattered at the time. This is what I think Diamond was trying to say; people don’t realize a lot of what they do and how it can affect other aspects of their lives. Although some would think that we could never let ourselves get that bad that we end ourselves because our technology is too advanced but I maintain that it is the people that think it can never happen to them that it ends up happening to. Therefore I conclude that It is important for people to use what we have sparingly and take little extra measures to ensure we don’t end up like the people on Easter Island because they were probably thinking the same thing we are that it could never happen to them.