The World As Polder By Jared Diamond Summary

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In the article "The world as Polder: What does it mean to Us Today" Jared Diamond mentions how life on earth is a system of living up stream and down stream. This is seen when Diamond mentions how Eskimos who are not around chemical manufacture, but instead in remote areas. Tend Suffer the most from toxic chemical poising since they are surrounded by all the toxic chemical waste the first world countries do not dispose of properly. Diamond also mentions how the East Islanders and the Classic Maya society along with other societies could not have known the damage they were causing, since they did not have other societies to learn from. However, our current societies do yet many choose not make a difference in the world if that change will

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