Easter Island Negatives

For almost eight million years, humans lived in small bands or groups that were mostly family based, mobile, and almost had no specialization of skills. But for the last ten thousand years humans have been living in states; densely populated, economically complex, socially unequal, governmentally controlled, unstable, and urban civilizations. There are many positives to living in such a manner, but this way of living does have some negatives as well and can be a less satisfying way to live.
First, the environment can get stressed when a dense population of people constantly and quickly use up its resources. Eventually that environment will stop producing resources fast enough or stop completely. This harms the civilization that currently lives there and all the other creatures that live there as well. Quality of life in that area decreases, causing people to maybe die of starvation or to have to move to a different environment. A good historical example of this is Easter Island. It is suspected that one of the main reasons the civilization that was on Easter Island vanished was because they used up all the islands trees too quickly which caused a chain …show more content…
I think this is mostly because of specialization, which allows for others to specialize in specific jobs. Some jobs can be seen as more important or powerful than others, which may create some kind of social inequality, but it also creates economic inequality since the people who have more important skills will receive more compensation or benefits for their work or service. For example, a person who specializes in surgery is seen as more important to society because they can save lives and therefore makes more money and reward for their rare and important skill than a bank teller does. But inequality wasn’t possible when humans were living in small groups because there was no specialization, everyone needed to know how to do every task themselves in order to