why societies make disastrous decisions

I found Jared Diamond’s article “Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions” really interesting and relatable to the problems our society is facing today. I really connected with his idea of the reason for society’s falling is that they cannot make big decisions, and the reason is that people cannot completely agree on the solution to a problem. Our society is facing this kind of problem right now with the threat of global warming. He pointed out several interesting reasons why these societies fall and the one I liked the most was that basically the societies were too lazy and naïve to anticipate a problem. He also made an interesting statement saying that when societies do experience and overcome a crisis they do not really learn how to prevent it from happening again in the case of the people in Tuscan, Arizona. This one was one of my most favorite readings so far because it relates to us and shines a light on the things we do right now.