HONR 229L: Climate Change: Science, Economics, and Governance Prologue and The Maya Your name here 11 September 2017

Great if you can lead a discussion of the prologue, even though this was not covered on the Admission Ticket for today’s meeting. The prologue works in a theme that history is often distorted by the bias of those who tell the story. a) relate your impression of how this theme is woven into the prologue. b) see if the class can provide some examples of history being distorted by those who tell the story.

The prologue states “eventually, I arrived at a five-point framework of possible contributing factors that I now consider in trying to understand any putative environmental collapse”. Please prepare a slide (or two) that lists these five-points, and contains a phrase or two under each of the points explaining how it will be used in the book

The prologue works states “climate change was even more of a problem for past societies … than it is today”. Summarize the reason Diamond states this is the case.

Please address using bulleted phrases, organized as you see fit, the main points Jared Diamond conveyed about The Maya in this chapter In other words, what was the chapter about ! Feel free to use illustrations, either from the book, included here for convenience or from another source. If from another source, please use proper attribution

Please address using bulleted phrases, organized as you see fit, something new you learned upon reading this chapter. Be specific if you can … i.e., nearly all of us have heard of The Maya, but what about The Maya was new to you upon reading this chapter

Describe how the history of the Maya may be applicable to the situation faced in the future by the world’s population, with respect to global warming (hint: climate change will induce changes in precipitation patterns)