Is the Survival of a society dependent on Fate or Human Choice?

thither is no enquiry that some societies ar more fragile than others. The subjective observation of a societies ability to succeed or fail cigarette sometimes be misleading when non all possible factors leading toward a societies final result, be considered. When an observer does non scrutinize a societies success or drop there of, chances are, the observer give endlessly grapple over whether the number of a bon ton was a result of fate, or human being choice. unneeded to say, through resources much(prenominal) as, Jared Diamonds book sever, and his movie Guns, Germs, and Steel as tumesce as, Jeffery Sachs book The End of Poverty, it is inevitable that both authors are confident in their revolutionary theories on a cabarets ability to succeed or fail. There is no question that the surroundings is the foundation for a societies future however, it is the human choices of how and what should be built on that foundation, which repair whether it will be constant and suc ceed or not. Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond have contrasting ideas on the meaning of the environment and how it affects societies.While Jeffery Sachs seems to underestimate its significance, Diamond gives it too much credit. Jeffery Sachs gives sixsome reasons in his book, The End of Poverty as to why societies takeoff and develop, or, throw away on and remain in their poorly developed state. Some of the reasons mentioned by Sachs include social mobility, political factors and fertility rates. Sachs did include physical geographics as one of the factors as well although, wouldnt one say that geographics is at the root of all six of those revelations? At least, Diamond tycoon agree.When faced with harsh environmental conditions solely based on where you lie in in globe, poses a question. Does ones survival purely depend on where they are born in the conception? Sachs does address geography as an essential factor in a societies success however, he states that you can still h ave societal changes even if the geography does not allow for it. This is lucid in chapter three of Sachs book as he discusses eight points that set up whether a society will thrive or not, and the role that human beings are playing in failing societies. Some of these points include technology, trade, indwelling resource decline and population growth.When mass die from extreme poverty, it is because they literally had nothing. They dont need a lot to survive, but they do need a lot to start a process of economic development and thats where Sachs and I would differ. Theres a reason societies who are under extreme poverty, have not been able to rise and be successful environmental barriers. The environment can easily wipe out humans basic needs, which is the first whole step to survival in Maslows Hierarchy of Needs. It is evident that environmental determinism does play an definitive role in a societies ability to thrive or not based on where you are on the globe?However, does is it location and the environment that comes with it purely determine whether a society will last? easterly Island is a society that virtually collapsed in isolation receivable to environmental damage. A perfect example of whether the success of a society depends on lack of human choices or environmental barriers. Jared captures his insight of the phenomenon in his book, Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed with concrete evidence. Jared mostly recognizes the geographic and environmental barriers that support the analogy that Easter was doomed from the beginning.From his reading, it seems that even if the people of Easter Island had made the most suitable and sensible human choices as far as persisting with the environment to obtain their basic needs, they curtly would have been doomed to failure. Jared gives an example of how something so vital for survival such as water, would immediately seep into the island when their only water resource, rainfall, would come. A lthough I potently believe that the environment plays a large role in a societies ability to thrive or not, Jared overlooked and underestimated the severity of human choices, ( conclusion) and its tinct on Easter Islands failure.Deforestation was unfortunately one of the main impart factors in Easter Islands failure. Jared states that Easter Island is covered with an abundance of substantial statues due to an aggressive competition between chiefs of the island that were built to honor them. This way of culture proved to work against its society because many trees were deforested in order to change the massive statues. The history of Easter Island helps to reconfirm my opinion that a society is destined to failure or success through mostly geographic and environmental state and a pinch of a societies ability to manufacture wise decisions.Jared Diamond believes that there are three things that determine the outcome of a society Guns, Germs and Steel. The main conclusion I gathere d from watch this film was that societies developed in different parts of the world because of differences in environments. Jared struggles to answer a provocative question to a Papua impudent Guinean, why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? Jared sets geography as the dominant factor, emphasizing, that, it is not the biological aspect of people that determine human history but rather the environmental context, which we have no control over. Diamond discusses his opinion on whether he believes in the elder presumption that the reason European civilizations were able develop and come up with advanced economies so fast, was because of their innate superiority. Jared believes we all moderately have the selfsame(prenominal) intelligence in every society, and that it is not based on genes or race. He was unable to accept the possibility that New Guineans are indifferent intellectually to E uropeans.I agree with Jared. I believe that the reason European society became more technologically and politically advanced was the fertile environment that these people were born into to. This environment would allow them to have food production, meek animals, and all other values that the New Guinea people did not have. at one time basic needs are met in a society, it is easier for a society to near up the ladder of success. It is therefore evident that the survival of a person is pure luck, based on whether you were born in an expanse where the environment works for you, and some human choices that are made to work with tte environment effectively.In conclusion, I wonder if developing counties in the world are doomed to failure and whether it is hopeless trying to make a sustainable society in those regions, and whether they should just be abandoned. The only advantage of having a co-operative environment is that it allows you to have all your basic needs, but will not nece ssarily help a society to advance further. erstwhile the foundation of a good environment is laid out, only consequently can human choice help a society climb up the ladder towards success.