And then finally, the fifth item on my checklist is the political, economic, social and cultural factors in the society that make it more or less likely that the society will perceive and solve its environmental problems. In the case of the Greenland Norse, cultural factors that made it difficult for them to solve their problems were: their commitments to a Christian society investing heavily in cathedrals; their being a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their scorn for the Inuit,
最后，在我的清单上的第五点： 一个社会的政治、经济、社会和文化因素， 这些因素能促使一个社会意识到并解决它所遇到的环境问题。 在这个案例中， 因为文化的原因，维京人很难解决遇到的问题，具体而言： 维京人是信仰基督教的， 他们将大量的人力物力花费在建筑大教堂上；此外， 作为一个极其争强好胜的社会，他们瞧不起因纽特人，