Collapse Assignment #2 (mini essay)

In today's world , everything is revolved around oil , and i literally mean EVERYTHING! If you notice, we are even made of oil because we eat food that is processed by oil, or use body soap that is processed with oil, and much more. We live in houses that revolve around oil, for heating , lighting, electricity,etc. If there was no oil, we wouldn't survive, the world would collapse.

Now when you think of collapse, people always think of it in different ways, there are many different types of collapses. There is the one where its the end of the world and everyone and everything dies out. there is the collapse where we run out of oil and our way of living totally changes. there is the collapse where there is a huge scare of the "end" of the world and everyone goes green and does a complete 360'. When i think about it, that last collapse would be a good collapse. That is what America is trying to do right now but doesn't seem to work out. i feel like right now "going green" is just a fashion statement. celebrities and people are just buying these little hybrids to look "cool" and "oh i care about the planet" , but really that 5% of the world doesn't mean much unless we ALL do it.

And there is alot of us on this world today to try and change, and the reason why there is so many of us is BECAUSE OF industrialization. ever since oil was founded, the population was growing by millions every year, and sooner or later we have a population of billions the planet. leaded to having to use more and more oil to keep things running and providing food and necessities for everyone. Which leads to more people trying to show off their wealth and buying EVERYTHING which leads to a different kind of collapse, a wealth one.

Which connects back to Easter island about how the people on the island tried to show off their wealth by building theses statues. The island doesn't have much trees, which is a very important resource to have on their land, but then you later find out that they used their trees and resources that they needed to survive, on these statues. It was basically a contest to see who can build the biggest statue on the island. So each and every one of them used up ALL of their resources to build these statues, which mean nothing and aren't needed on the island. Due to this "race" to show their wealth and strength, the island ended up collapsing and becoming non existent except for its statues.

When looking at this situation , i right away think of America because when you think of it , these Easter island people where trying to show off their wealth by trying to see who can build the biggest statue. it was a way of showing themselves off and trying to climb the social ladder. This connects to the American way of living because today so many people are trying to climb the social ladder and show off their wealth by buying huge houses and all of these expensive things and technology that they can LIVE WITHOUT. Its just a pointless way of showing yourself off. Just like the people on Easter island, no one on the island NEEDED to have those statues on the island.

Overall , sooner or later this world is going to collapse (any collapse you think it will be) and we are going to have to change our American way of living!