SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: 2012 Phenomenon, Maya Calendar, Nuclear Winter

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

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The location is quite remote, fewer animal and plant species. Logs were needed to move statues from quarry, raise them. Jared diamond (1937-): diamond"s factors for societal collapse. Others say people came around 1200, carried rats. Easter island was rat paradise, ate anything, caused deforestation. Easter island"s population seemed to remain stable until the natives were exposed to. Diamond offers other cases--the anasazi, mayans, greenland--all lasted at least 400 years. Climate change is not a new issue (greenland) 15th century europe experienced several religious conflicts----->because of global cooling people turned to god. British empire spanned the globe, but faced colonial wars (south africa, afghanistan, The four horsemen of the apocalypse--war, pestilence, famine, death. History offers lots of terrible examples--irish potato famine. We are bombarded by apocalyptic warnings--global economic crisis, terrible epidemics (ebola), nuclear war, nuclear terrorism, nuclear winter, major asteroid strike, the supervolcano, lots more, nanotechnology produces gray goo .