When A Culture Destroys Its Environment

"It's in Greenland, [Jared] Diamond says, that we can see what happens to a culture that trashes its environment. The Norsemen didn't just forget to recycle their beer bottles; they stripped the turf off a polar ice cap, killed all their trees and destroyed themselves within a few centuries. They show us where we, in the otherwise more sophisticated United States of America, may be headed... Surviving the jungles of New Guinea may be child's play compared to penetrating Washington policy."

Thanks to New Times LA Newsletter