“MINING” AUSTRALIA

Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedBy: Jared Diamond

Who is Jared Diamond?- B.A. from Harvard University

- Ph.D. in Physiology and biophysics From Cambridge University

- MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (Genius Award)

- Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs, and Steel

- Ornithology

- Geography UCLA

Is the text biased?- Biologist, New Guinea

- Director of U.S. affiliate of World Wildlife Fund

- People

Australia-Colony of Great Britain

- Prisoners (39 shilling vs. 40 shillings)

-What nice looking ground

- Look like Great Brittan (rabbits, foxes, birds)

Population- First World Country (20 million)

- 1950’s wanted population increase

(Abandon White Australian Policy)

- 50 million, 8 million

- 58% urbanized (no medium)

- Required land clearance

- Sheep (wool)

- Kangaroo meat

“Mining”- Soil (nutrients)

- 1) Volcanic activity- 2) Glaciers- 3) Uplifts

Salinization- ENSO (the El Niño Southern Oscillation)

- Irrigation Salinization- Irrigation/ Sprinklers

- Dryland Salinization- Rain

- Underground River

Fish-Risk of Collapse

-Low nutrients

-Overharvesting

Pest Problem“Many of these pests are enormously expensive in

the damage that they cause and in the annual control costs that they necessitate every year: e.g., a few hundred million dollars per year for rabbits, $600 million for flies and ticks of livestock, $200 million for a pasture mite, $2.5 billion for other insect pests, over $3 billion for weeds, and so on.”

Economy- Is it needed

- The rest of the world

- Giving it up

- Concern of the people

- Hope

QuestionDo you think other First World countries

will ever be affected by their environment like Australia has? What action can be taken to preserve agriculture here and around the world?

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