Read this passage from "The Ends of the World as We Know Them": What lessons can we draw from history? The most
straightforward: take environmental problems seriously.
They destroyed societies in the past, and they are even
more likely to do so now. If 6,000 Polynesians with stone
tools were able to destroy Mangareva Island, consider
what six billion people with metal tools and bulldozers are
doing today. Moreover, while the Maya collapse affected
just a few neighboring societies in Central America,
globalization now means that any society's problems have
the potential to affect anyone else. Just think how crises in
Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq have shaped the United
States today
Diamond appeals to ethos in this excerpt by using: