Tradition VS. Disorder.

In chapter 5, Maya Collapse, in the novel Collapse, Jared Diamond discusses a variety of ways in which their collapse. Their collapse has been lead by the drought that had leaded them to their lack of main resource, corn. Also their collapse was lead by the forced action by Christopher Columbus, forcing them to convert into Christianity. In chapter one, Sleeping into the future, in the novel The Long Emergency, James Howard discusses specific aspects in which leads them to their downfall. Their downfall was lead by an economic and political disorder on a scale that no one has ever seen before, "Long Emergency". This economic and political disorder is about our global warming situation that has fled through the nation not as a political dispute but an established scientific consensus. Both readings are similar in which they both have collapsed. Although they both have collapse due to an environmental issue, Maya was an uncontrollable event soon to disperse on them and The Long Emergency was a ticking timer ready to go off, which was armed by people of the world. Both were effected in their global and economic society because these different conditions were just different aspects in which contributed to their economic and political downfall.

Although the Mayans considered their environment like a jungle they still treated it as if it was a holy piece of land. They filled it with artful statues that represented their culture. They continued their culture going by making it a tradition to hand it down from father to son. The United States had a great amount of abuse for their land; although some of the abuse was beneficial to our economies resources, but the way it has lead to our economic downfall isn't beneficial. The oil machines, the oil based cans, the oil that is used with every piece of energy we have can be blamed for our economic downfall. These two collapses defer because of how we treated our land, "homes". The Mayans took more care of it then the United States did their, although not on purpose, it still lead both of us to their Collapse which wasn't predictable on the Mayans part, but for us, it was.