A Tale of Two Farms

In a Tale of Two Farms,  Jared Diamond describes the importance of society being able to adapt to change. In this case climate change is the change that Diamond questions if society can adapt to. In this passage he talks about two farms who are impacted by climate change. "Natural climate changes may make conditions either better or worse for any particular human society, and may benefit one society while hurting another society (Diamond 29)."  I understand this idea for example if their was a snow storm in south west florida the produce and wildlife would suffer and die, while if this same snowstorm hit Alaska the wildlife and whatever natural resources common to Alaska would be prepared as this is more of a natural climate for that area. Now if Alaska was 100 degrees in temperature for a week the area would suffer, while Florida is prepared.  In this passage is also discussed that there is a trend of climate change because of the differences between two groups of people, the environmentalist and the non environmentalist. They argue that non environmentalist are related to big business while the environmentalist have "exaggerated concerns" (32). I understand this argument as pollution is supposedly one of the reasons for climate change and that big business is a major cause of this with factories all over the world. But because there is also claims of not knowing the true reason for climate change or if its real the claims of it being exaggerated can be supported.