This weeks readings were rather thought provoking. They really got to the idea of "if we don't change our ways now, serious consequences will be the results." The "Collapse of Western Civilization" especially got at the point of what will be to come if we don't change our harmful and consumptive habits and lifestyles that we are currently living. It takes an interesting perspective of being in the future tense and talking as though not enough was done to combat climate change and the world is currently suffering the consequences. It talks about a variety of issues including: the amount of that takes place in regards to climate change in the fact that because it inconveniences people and climate change is not something that the people want to here about and think about, they write it off and deny that anything will happen to the world as predicted, which is not the case. Also it discusses how global climate change will affect the world economy and markets, local populations in terms of population size and animals that can survive in an area etc. It raises many good points about what to come if we as a world to change our harmful consumptive habits.

The Climate Cultures readings for this week take a more "scientific" approach while looking in depth at climate change itself. It talks about a wide variety of things involving climate change such as varying climates throughout the world and the climate change noted by different people across the world in different climates. It also takes a rather in depth look at the different attempts that have been legally made in order to limit these negative climate change occurrences such as the Stockholm and Rio Summits and so on.

Both readings were very informative and valuable reads that touched on a very wide variety of climate change issues.

Work Cited:
Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

Barnes, Jessica, and Michael Dove. Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change. New Haven: Yale UP, 2015. Print.