Easter Island is actually the Rapa Nui island. We call it Easter Island because it was discovered on Easter weekend. Many years ago the Polynesian tribe settled there. It used to be a nice beautiful island with lots of trees and animals. Then around 320 AD the Polynesians settled there and it changed. When the Polynesians just settled, there wasn’t a big number of them, it is estimated that fewer than 100 started out on the island. The population soon thrived and grew. It grew to an estimated average of 3,000 people. Causing need for more resources to provide for everyone. The Polynesians cut down trees to build canoes, shelter, and things to hull the Moai’s, an average of 14 ton and 14’6” statue that the tribes built, across the island. Resulting destruction of the forest which took animals, like the seabirds, homes away. Which also lead to taking there own food
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This was because they saw that a short time after they arrived the population dropped almost half the size. They then gest that the population started out around the size of 30,000. This though is thought not to be the reason for people's death, but instead from the Europeans bringing diseases that the Polynesians were not immune to. But as more research is being done at Easter Island it is found that the Polynesians were getting along with scearce resources using what they had left.
Easter Island is often used as an example of the Tragedy of the Commons. The Tragedy of the Commons is when an area or thing is open to all without limits. Then the Commons, or people, take advantage of it without thinking about the consequences. The people end up using the source faster than it can replenish itself causing downsize in the product. In the end the people end up taking consequences of it by not having the needed resources to
This was because they saw that a short time after they arrived the population dropped almost half the size. They then gest that the population started out around the size of 30,000. This though is thought not to be the reason for people's death, but instead from the Europeans bringing diseases that the Polynesians were not immune to. But as more research is being done at Easter Island it is found that the Polynesians were getting along with scearce resources using what they had left.
Easter Island is often used as an example of the Tragedy of the Commons. The Tragedy of the Commons is when an area or thing is open to all without limits. Then the Commons, or people, take advantage of it without thinking about the consequences. The people end up using the source faster than it can replenish itself causing downsize in the product. In the end the people end up taking consequences of it by not having the needed resources to