Easter Island can be a representation of today’s modern world view and actions. Historians speculate that the people from Easter Island became extinct due to the society using too many resources too quickly. Due to the island being so being so remote they only had a small amount of resources that they could use. With the people not realizing that they have a limited resource base they used many trees to move a lot of the stones around the island. This is what caused a chain of events to occur.
The reasoning for the deforestation was due to a religious belief and is the reason they made the stone statues. In order to move these statues without any large enough animals to move them around they had to go out and cut trees down and use man power …show more content…
Different species can lose their homes making the go endangered or even worse extinct. One can argue that it is a natural cycle of life where the strongest will survive. There was a study done where scientists were trying to see why one bird species was decreasing near a bridge and they noticed that the birds with longer wings were dyeing while the birds with shorter wings were living. The birds with shorter wings were able to move out of the way because they had more mobility. If species are not able to adapt to the changing environment then they will not be able to …show more content…
This also plays a role in the amount of acid rain that forms, less trees means more greenhouse gases and more damage to not only the environment but different species as well.
Today’s society can be related to Easter Island largely due to planet Earth having a limited amount of resources. It is just like Easter Island but on a larger scale. People are constantly looking for the next best thing such as the newest technology or the newest car. Many individuals do not always realize that it requires the consummation of certain resources. They may look at the next best thing without realizing what affects their actions are having to the environment around them.
Some examples can be seen with today’s rain forests and deforestation. It causes many animals to not only lose their environments but their homes. This can cause some animals to become endangered such as the polar bear, tiger or even extinction of certain species, such as dodo
The reasoning for the deforestation was due to a religious belief and is the reason they made the stone statues. In order to move these statues without any large enough animals to move them around they had to go out and cut trees down and use man power …show more content…
Different species can lose their homes making the go endangered or even worse extinct. One can argue that it is a natural cycle of life where the strongest will survive. There was a study done where scientists were trying to see why one bird species was decreasing near a bridge and they noticed that the birds with longer wings were dyeing while the birds with shorter wings were living. The birds with shorter wings were able to move out of the way because they had more mobility. If species are not able to adapt to the changing environment then they will not be able to …show more content…
This also plays a role in the amount of acid rain that forms, less trees means more greenhouse gases and more damage to not only the environment but different species as well.
Today’s society can be related to Easter Island largely due to planet Earth having a limited amount of resources. It is just like Easter Island but on a larger scale. People are constantly looking for the next best thing such as the newest technology or the newest car. Many individuals do not always realize that it requires the consummation of certain resources. They may look at the next best thing without realizing what affects their actions are having to the environment around them.
Some examples can be seen with today’s rain forests and deforestation. It causes many animals to not only lose their environments but their homes. This can cause some animals to become endangered such as the polar bear, tiger or even extinction of certain species, such as dodo