Pg. 156 #2; Responce to Diamond Essay; Using Quotations.

In Diamond's excerpt "Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions" Diamond introduces his audience to many possible ways that societies may have collapsed due to mistakes, misconceptions, horrible decisions, and ignorance. I agree with Diamond's responce that societies may have never thought the problem to exist until after the problem was already present or had occurred. I agree with this statement because I can see it happening around me, being in the midst of global warming. Many people did not care or believe that in the long run such poor use and abuse of the Earth and enviroment would cause such a massive change in the enviroment to occur. "Diamond explains Global Warming and humanities failure to perceive the dilemma as so in the quotation, " Perhaps the commonest circumstance under which societies fail to perceive a problem is when it takes the form of a slow trend concealed by wide up and down fluctuations." Diamond refers to this as the term "Creeping normalcy." Where he explains that events take place slowly over time and people living in the environment where it is happening grow used to the changes and adapt, without taking notice of the major changes most of the time. Those who have lived in the environment for a long time would be able to see the difference and possibly even somewhere doesn't visit the area all that often but knows what it looked like, say, 20 years ago. Due to what I have been able to witness through at least the last three or four years, I agree with Diamonds theory of "Creeping Normalcy", because most things that happen not within the environment but anywhere within human existence becomes normal to us at some point and then we just tend to brush it off and change something and continue on with our lives.