EASTER'S END

The general point made by Jared Diamond in his work Easter’s End is that some great civilizations that were prosperous have failed. More specifically, Diamond suggests that the people of Easter’s Island did this exact thing. They were once a society with gigantic stone carvings and nothing short of a paradise island, and it all disappeared. He writes; “It would be easy to close our eyes or to give up in despair. If mere thousands of Easter Islanders with only stone tools and their own muscle power sufficed to destroy their society, how can billions of people with metal tools and machine power fail to do worse?”(pg 431) In this passage, Diamond is suggesting that we need to be careful with what we do with our tools. We need to conserve nature, so trees and other great plants that we take for granted, do not go extinct. In conclusion, it is Diamond’s belief that we should learn from the fates of societies like Easter’s and change now.

In my view, Diamond is right to say that we should be smart with how we use nature because we might get carried away and destroy it all. For example, this reminds me of the new movie The Lorax. The people in Thneedsville cut down all their trees just to make these stupid thneeds. By cutting down all these tress they ruined a beautiful piece of nature that used to be paradise to many animals.  Although Diamond objects that without conservation of nature it will slowly disappear I maintain that-we need to be careful and not overuse trees, and other plants to a point where is goes extinct. Therefore, I conclude that we should learn from the past and not make the same mistakes that the people from Easter’s Island made.