{"id":55217,"date":"2020-10-04T06:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55217"},"modified":"2020-10-04T06:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:56:38","slug":"welcome-to-easter-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55217","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To Easter Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome To Easter Island<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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We’re making the same mistakes with our essential resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Remember Easter Island? That place in the pages of\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>\u00a0with the gigantic carved heads peeking up from grassy slopes?<\/p>\n

Whether you recall it or not, you live there \u2014 in a manner of speaking.<\/p>\n

Easter Island was colonized by the Rapanui, a particularly adept seafaring culture.\u00a0 When they arrived, around the year 800 A.D., the island was a lush forested tropical paradise.<\/p>\n

But eventually, according to researcher Jared Diamond in his bestseller\u00a0Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed<\/em>, they committed ecocide.<\/p>\n

They cut down every single tree on their island. Eventually the people had no wood to burn in their cookfires. They had to resort to burning grass, a particularly inferior fuel source.<\/p>\n

But before arriving at that sad state, the Rapanui cut numerous huge stone effigies called \u201cmoai\u201d out of solid rock \u2013 some weighing 14 tons \u2013 sculpted them, and moved them great distances.<\/p>\n

For whatever reason, the Rapanui tribe felt it was very important to make these giant stone heads, often at the cost of using trees as the means for transporting and erecting them.<\/p>\n

Somewhere along the way I\u2019m sure there were alert members of their society quietly wondering if maybe they should instead start protecting their dwindling groves and forests?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough to be \u201cthat person\u201d who concludes that your culture is up to something completely non-sensical.\u00a0 It\u2019s tough to open up and call that stuff out \u2014 because most people don\u2019t see the problem themselves, and can feel attacked if you bring it up.<\/p>\n

In this story of Easter Island, the production of the gigantic stone moai were deemed more important than every tree on the island.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hey, maybe that was the right call \u2013 I don\u2019t know, I wasn\u2019t there. But whether it made sense or not, it wasn\u2019t a sustainable practice.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome To Easter Island We’re making the same mistakes with our essential resources Remember Easter Island? That place in the pages of\u00a0National Geographic\u00a0with the gigantic carved heads peeking up from grassy slopes? Whether you recall it or not, you live there \u2014 in a manner of speaking. Easter Island was colonized by the Rapanui, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3596,30381,617,2218,20756,769],"class_list":["post-55217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-chris-martenson","tag-easter-island","tag-peak-oil","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-resource-use","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55218,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55217\/revisions\/55218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}