Easter Island Essay

The Choices Societies Make and the Challenges Surrounding Them The choices the Greenland Norse, the people of Easter Island, and the people of Haiti made directly contributed to their societal collapse. Their environmental fragility advanced their downfall, but ultimately their poor decision-making led to their collapse. The Greenland Norse’s and people of Easter Island’s incorrect choices were mostly due to social challenges and reluctance to abandon traditions, but the incorrect choices of the

Easter island ( Rapa Nui ) Intro : The Polynesians discovered the barely sustainable Island of Rapa Nui, 4300 miles out of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, that they eventually destroyed. The Polynesians had the disadvantage to be living in one of the most fragile environments, at the highest risk of deforestation. Easter island being so alone makes it clear that's its a society that destroyed itself by lack of sustainability. Scientists believe that the Polynesian fisherman came to the island by accident

southeastern Turkey. Twilight at Easter is similar to the Fertile Crescent. One reason Diamond selected this island is because, “it proves to be the closest approximation that we have to an ecological disaster unfolding in complete isolation.” This, is an important aspect for researchers because it means that outside factors, which so often make the difference, were not influential in the demise. The reasons for collapse could only come from within the isolated system of Easter Island. I found this chapter

When most scientist here, “Tragedy of the Commons” they instantly think about Easter Island and the devistating turn of events that wiped out a whole civilization but for those who have never heard of the tragedy of the commons we first need to understand its meaning beforewe think of Easter island.Tragedy of the commons is basically a Theory in which a group of people sharing a common resource will act selfish in order to guarantee their own survival and not taking into consideration the effect

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the island's natives would say, is a small remote island taking up approximately 65 square miles of Chilean territory. Rapa Nui acquired the name Easter Island when a dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, and his voyagers came across the island by mistake while enroute for a different island on Easter Sunday in 1722. This volcanic island is located over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, but still remains part of the Polynesian Islands. Being founded by Polynesians, the

The small, isolated Rapa Nui Island—or, Easter Island—began its history of human-habitation with difficulty. Settlers were 3,000 kilometers away from other settlements, native plants and animals were limited, and its geographic location make the island subject to El Nino’s varying conditions (Hunt and Lipo 2007). Despite obstacles unique to Rapa Nui, as compared to its Polynesian neighbors, the people of Rapa Nui were successful before collapse, surviving as “one of the world’s most remote human

exceeding the carrying capacity and overusing resources is the collapse of Easter Island. The inhabitants of Easter Island deforested the land to build and transport statutes which eroded the land and “depleted the terrestrial food resources, which led to resource wars and a population collapse” (Cairns 40). Easter Island only focused on making statues and did not think about future generations. In comparison to Easter Island, Tikopia also reached its carrying capacity, however, took measures to prevent

history one can see the seeds of old destruction sprinkled within our own civilization. Within our own civilization one notices the seeds of the military overspending that crippled the Roman Empire, the deforestation that led to the downfall of the Easter Islands, and overuse of the land that Destroyed Maya, and a divisiveness that obliterated the Sumerian Civilization. By noticing that all of these factors are present in our society today and that all of them are preventable we can attempt to learn from

Pascua Airport located on Rapa Nui (Easter Islands) is the most remote airport in the world. The nearest continental point lies 3512 kms (2182 miles) away in Central Chile in comparison that is more than the distance from New York to Mexico City (2090 miles) and the nearest inhabited point 2075 kms (1289 miles) away in Pitcairn Island. It has scheduled flights from Santiago, Chile (3759 kms) and is the main entry point for tourists who come to Easter Island to see the mysterious Moai Statues.

What happened to the Rapa Nui or Easter Island people really depends on whose account of their “collapse” one trusts the most. Jared Diamond differs from Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt on what he feels happened to the Rapa Nui civilization. Diamond’s version of their narrative in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail to Succeed was that the civilization began in 900 AD (Diamond: 89). As soon as humans arrived on the island, they began cutting down trees for agriculture and use of the timber. While timber