today in class, we talked about 2 authoritative document called 'our common future' and i can't remember the name of the other one. The homework we brought to class was to predict what emerging trends will become the main stream stuff in the future. It was interesting to listen to other classmates' ideas and what they thought was new and revolutionary. When we were talking about the documents, we were talking about how we are still not prepared for what's coming to us in the future. in the video we watched today, the story of Easter Island was so amazing. and how that professor compared the fallen Easter Island society with our world now. I thought it was such a good comparison in a way how they had such a advanced polynesian technology and culture and all of sudden they are wiped out. not because of outter invasion but collapsed slowly within.
I thought it should be a warning for all of us.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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I totally agree. I thought the story about Easter Island was pretty incredible, and its definitely a good comparison to what is going on today with natural resources, except the Easter Island story is on a much smaller scale. We are slowing using up all of our natural resources, and because we aren't dealing with something as obvious as trees i think many people dont realize how severe the problem really is. Like you said, we should heed the warning and learn a lesson from the story of the Easter Islanders
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