Collapse Assignment 2-

Based off of the things we looked at in class, and my own research, I've noticed that a society's collapse can be from many things or from one thing. For example in Easter Island, they collapsed because they overused their source of trees. Cutting down trees wasn't they only reason why they collapsed, but it lead (like a domino effect) to other things happening causing them to collapse. I kind of see the same thing happening when in America when it comes to oil. America depends so much on oil , like the people on Easter Island depended on their trees. Depending on how you look at it, oil runs our lives in America.

Before this unit I knew that oil was a big thing in America, and that it caused many problems in America also, but I never realized how much we depend on it in our everyday lives. We depend on oil for everything,from our clothes, the water we drink, our technology, and even the food we eat. We use so much in America alone, I don't think that people realize that it's going to be here for ever. Since oil is used in our everyday lives, I think people take it for granted because they things it's always going to be available for us. However i think it's time that they start thinking about what happens when the amount of oil is so low, that there isn't much we can do with it. Since we have reached our peak oil in 2006, our amount of oil has gone down hill. It's really time for America, or even the lazy Americans to start thinking of an alternative.

I think that when it comes to a crisis in America, Americans wait for someone with power (or who they think knows what they are doing) to think of an alternative solution. In most cases Americans wait on the government to making the life altering change to make the country better, or in turn protect them from harm. When it comes to oil I think that we need to think of an alternative before it is too late. Oil can definitely be a reason that America's society collapses, and it's better if we do something about it now, rather than when it's too late.