Environmental Collapse Of Easter Island

In some ways, organisms, people, cultures, as well as ecosystems change their habits and their ways of life to better themselves. Meanwhile some simply choose to maintain their own way of life because they're unable to adapt to a new environment. To better the environment and themselves, a greater emphasis is placed when an individual adapts to their own environment. Some individuals are influenced by others to change, while others change on their own. However, some don’t feel influenced to adapt because they think that they don’t need a change. As far as changing is concerned, over the years our society has been horribly impacted and many have changed due to these impacts. Although change is difficult, one must adapt to the constantly changing

This led them to use up all their resources for artistic reasons converting to cannibalism. Easter island’s decision to not change affected everyone living there. Some were fortunate enough to escape while others had no choice but to stay there. In the article “Environmental Collapse of Easter Island”, by Jared Diaman, it states “Any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would've been overridden by vested interests of carvers, bureaucrats, and Chiefs, whose jobs depended on continued deforestation.” This means that Easter island continued on using up all their resources and cutting down all their trees for mostly statues; to show off their wealth, and when islanders tried to influence and warn others to stop cutting down trees and the consequences it'll have later on, they were simply killed. With no money left, no food, nor resources, they couldn't trade and then were forced to turn into cannibalism. Building statues wasn't a very good choice, especially when they're were running out of resources. Another quote by Jared Diaman states that, “ After a few centuries, then began erecting stone statues on platforms.” This quote shows that the statues were practically useless, because all it did was use up all of Easter islanders resources. If they had changed their habits and not used up all their resources, they would've survived in

Montag was a fireman whose job was to burn books. This all changed when he was influenced by Clarisse who helped Montag stay true to himself and to look carefully at the society he was living in. Her curiosity and questioning is so unique that Montag was struck by her. Montag’s “place in society” was to burn books and to watch the parlor all day. His true self included reading books, thinking, and not burning literature. Montag only changed his habits of burning books, because he realized what he was doing was wrong and that he was burning knowledge away. He describes his anger towards Mildred by saying, “ You weren’t there, you didn’t see. There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing”(45). This quote was the tipping point for Montag, because it showed his frustration and sadness when he saw that old lady give up her life for her books. He started to realize that books do in fact contain something and that they’re worth fighting for. Montag gave up his whole life, his family, his job, his friends, to be true to himself and to fight for something he believed in which was literature. This shows us readers that it was hard for Montag to change his ways and to