Jared Diamond- Geographical Luck

Last semester in my Human Geography class, we studied a hard-working and determined individual named Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond is a scientist and author of many books. In his studies, he traveled to a small, undeveloped country called Papua New Guinea. Diamond wrote a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel. There was a documentary movie based on this book, which we watched in our last semester class. While Jared Diamond was in Papua New Guinea, he studied the Papua New Guineans lifestyle and culture. Diamond was faced with a question with from one of the native Papua New Guineans. His question was, “Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?” Diamond found that it was a simple question but had such a complex answer. This question really caught his attention. He began to intently researching to find an answer. In the end, all he could come up with is that some societies have developed a civilization faster than others and they simply just have Geographical Luck.

 Jared Diamond was right on track with his theory of Geographical Luck. The idea that some people and places were simply just lucky is completely accurate.  Not everyone can have perfect farmland for growing crops. Not everyone can have place filled with wild animals to be eventually domesticated. There are plenty of places out there where no matter what they do; they cannot grow the necessary crops. The earth is constantly changing, with the climate and people living on it. For example, many years ago, the Middle East was filled with forests now it is very dry. All this information shows us how dynamic the world is today. Everyday something somewhere in the world is changing.