SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hanford Site, System On A Chip
26 May 2016
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His is the title of chapter 14 of jared diamonds powerful book called collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. He has a framework which may be used for answering the compare and contrast questions. Failure to anticipate a problem before it arrived. This may be because the society had no prior experience of such problems and so may not have been sensitive to the possibility of potential danger. Another reason a society may fail to anticipate a problem is that when faced with an unfamiliar situation it falls back on analogies with old familiar situations. Perceiving or failing to perceive a problem that has actually arrived. Diamond offers a number of reasons for such situations. For example, the origins of some problems are imperceptible. The problem maybe in the form of a slow trend hidden by wide up-and-down fluctuations.
