Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

Introduction

The book “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies” was written by Jared Diamond. He has written comprehensively about the environmental role in changing society. This book makes use of apocalyptic theme which is very popular theme in all ancient history. In particular, the author believes that civilizations cause their own downfall by harming its own environment which supports them. In addition, this kind of book usually concluded by blaming technological advancement as a prime cause of all collapses.

Discussion

Thesis of Diamond refers that a number of societies ruined up obliterating their incredible livelihood source. The notion by no means occurs to Diamond that a civilization may perhaps merely change means of living or source of revenue. For instance, if there is lack of wood, people can use different source or material to build houses, or if boats are not available in a particular society, people can switch to hunting and farming from fishing. The humankind history is not a reflex recurrence of the same way/ standard of living day in, day out. On the contrary, a number of people have been software engineers in the Silicon Valley. At present, such employment for software engineers are rare, several of those engineers are merely switching to other occupations (Diamond, 2005).

Jared Diamond tried to find answer of why and how is it all through the history of human, Western societies have consistent supremacy over other civilization? The undertaking of Diamond is a cumbersome. The research of Diamond directed him to believe that European has a geographical advantage that facilitates them in to dominate other societies; as these cultures unavoidably changed and evolved, governments shaped, and individuals started systematizing them ...