UCLA professor Jared Diamond's book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail” discusses a series of events that have led to the demise or prevalence of a number of societies. Diamond does this by providing a “Five Point Framework” in which these particular societies have succeeded or failed. This Five point framework includes: Environmental damage, Hostile neighbors, climate change, the loss of trading partners and finally the societies ability to adapt and respond to their detrimental environmental problems. Now, Diamond discusses a number of societies throughout the world past and present, however this paper will be covering specifically the Norse settlement of Greenland who unfortunately met all five of the points in the framework laid out by Jared Diamond. Also, this paper will try to work out a few solutions the Norse could have used and we as a society may also use in order to prevent a future collapse.…show more content… Just like in their native land, Iceland, the Norse caused destruction to their environment. This claim was made by Professor Diamond is based on the analysis of the dust. This erosion is thought to have been caused the inhumane cutting of trees, turf cutting, and agriculture. Now, this is pointing directly to not just one of Diamonds “Five Points” but two, which is environmental damage that caused the inevitable climate change. The naivety or be it negligence of the farming practices and agriculture by The Norse had already set themselves off to a bad start and would have most likely been the end to their people, but sadly this was just the beginning of their failure as a
