PG.138 #2: A Practice Sequence:Summarizing

2. The claims in the article by Diamond all have to revolve around why some societies make the decisions that they do even though they can end up having horrible consequences. Jared Diamond, who is the writer of the article, is an evolutionary biologist and is a college professor. Diamond's article "Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous decisions?" was written for nonprofessionals and professionals alike. He incorporates scholarly terms with ideals from his students which helps to make it more relatable and easy to understand. The article as a whole is a bout the ways that societies end up messing up and destroying what they have or did have at one point that allowed them to be a collective and fully running society. His key claims in he article are that the people on these societies may do disastrous things because they did not anticipate them to happen in the beginning. Then the people in the societal group may not notice there is a problem within their society when there is so they will not take any steps to make it or help it to get better. Also, that the decisions of common folk within a society clash with the higher powers of the society which cause a breakdown and not much communicating to take place.