Easter Island is a remote volcanic island inhabited by the Rapa Nui people who built massive stone statues. The island has few natural resources and no trees due to deforestation. When discovered by Jacob Roggeveen in 1722, the Rapa Nui population was in decline and their civilization had collapsed, likely due to overconsumption of limited resources and resulting environmental damage preventing escape. The island is now a territory of Chile and lessons can be learned from the Rapa Nui people about maintaining a sustainable way of life.

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2. • Volcanic island
• Capital Hanga Roa
• Remote, inhabited place
• Near Chile

3. Discovery
• Jacob Roggeveen
• On Easter Sunday 1722
• He found primitive society

4. 1722.....
• Carried off 22 inhabitants
• Contitions worsened
• Population continued to
decline(vähenema)
• Island vas taken over Chile

5. • Few resources
• 30 species of flora
• No mammals
• 2 types of lizard
• People ate potatoes and
chickens

6. Statues
• 600 massive stone statues
• Over 20 feet high
• Craved with stone tools
• Quarry(kaevandus) at Rano
Raraku
• Male head and torso
• ‘topknot’ (10 tons)

8. Enviornmental collapse
• Deforestation
• No trees = no canoes
• Unable to escape
• They consumed until none were left

9. Our lesson
• Limited resources
• No escape
• Find the way of life that does not kill the
resources

10. Used literature
• Clive Ponting “A Green History of
the World: The Environment and
the Collapse of Great Civilizations”
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Isla
• http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui
.html

11. Thank you!