Easter Island Summary

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Wrights’ article addresses the issues on Easter Island. For example, he states the history of the island and the destruction of the lush environment. Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is an island located at the Southeast of the Pacific Ocean. Easter Island is a valid example of events occurring in the world today. The immigrants of Easter Island were destroying the environment for living and decorative purpose. Currently in today’s society, the world is doing the same thing: using up all of our natural resources. Society must learn from the people of Easter Island and preserve our natural resources. Unlike now, Easter Island was a place of “was rich in seafood: fish, seals, porpoises, turtles, and nesting seabirds” and many other natural resources …show more content…

The immigrants built houses out of stone, and use the best land for agriculture. “Socially they split into clans and ranks - nobles, priests, commoners - and there may have been a paramount chief or “king”” (Wright 121). Because of the growth of population, the demand of wood had increased rapidly and caused the reduction of trees. Also, the rats that the immigrants brought to the Easter Island ate the seeds of trees, which worsened the problem of timber. “By A.D. 1400, no more tree pollen is found in the annual strata of the crater lakes: the woods had been utterly destroyed by both the largest and the smallest mammal on the island” (Wright 121). Since timber is the supplies of everyday life, immigrants should curtail the use of timbers. But they did not change anything use of their timbers, except they stopped building boats for …show more content…

The clans started to eat their dogs and the most of nesting birds of the island, which cause the silence of the entire Easter Island. “The good days were gone [for them] - gone with the good earth, which had been carried aways on the endless wind and washed by flash floods into the sea” (Wright 122). The warriors had taken the power, because they are the people who protect the clans. They burned others villages, stole resources, killed people, and ate people. Obsidian, a razor-keen volcanic glass, got turned into weapons, such as daggers and spearheads. During that time, people have lived in caves. “Their only building were stone hen-houses where they guarded this last non-human protein [and the resource of food] from each other day and night” (Wright

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