Response to Jared Diamond's Collapse

In Jared Diamond's essay on the collapse of the Easter islanders, we see that these people ran out of their natural resources in an ego-driven contest to be the biggest, richest person around. Right off the bat we see that connection to the American society that is all about ripping off your peers in order that you outshine your neighbor. We also follow in a similar path to that of the Easter islanders because of our dependency on oil and our continued depletion of it. We als