Easter's End

Jared Diamond is a professor at UCLA of geography. He was a professor of physiology at UCLA school of medicine. He started his studies in physiology and then ventured to biology and biogeography. He has written eight books.  He also goes to New Guinea to study the bird population and has written a book about his findings.

The general point made by Jared Diamond in his work Easter’s End is that our society is like the society on Easter Island. More specifically, Diamond suggests that we are using up all of the worlds resources until one day they will all be gone and our society will no longer exist. He writes, “Easter Island is earth writ small. Today, again, a rising population confronts shrinking resources.” (pg. 431) In this passage, Diamond is suggesting exactly what I said; we are a growing population with limited resources. In conclusion, it is Diamond’s belief that we are very similar to the population of Easter Island that over exhausted the resources of their island.

In my view, Diamond is right because it has always been my personal belief that one day, the human population will become extinct due to our overuse of the resources that the earth provides for us. For example, I know that I Am Legend is just a movie but I can see how one day the world will become quiet and uninhabited except maybe by a select few. Of course we won’t all get a weird disease that turns us into zombies, we will just die. Although Diamond might object that we have the history and knowledge to hopefully prevent another society crash, I maintain that it is only a matter of time before the earth retaliates against us. Therefore, I conclude that Diamond is totally right in comparing us to the civilization of Easter Island and I think something like that could happen in the future.