Posts tagged “Easter Island”
The last tree
We ask what the Easter Islanders thought as they cut the last tree down, implying that they were somehow stupider than us, that we would certainly recognize the value of a resource and preserve it before it got to that point. But species are going extinct every day and even many common species are in […]
Reminds me a bit of Easter Island
The Turks and the Greeks have been fighting over Cyprus for a long time now, but neither side seems to notice that they’re fighting over a dying island.
It’s the End of the World As We Know It
We’ve waited so long to do anything about climate change, that sea level rise of more than 6 feet (and half of that predicted in this century) is pretty much unstoppable now. Things are going to go pretty badly for most countries, but island nations will be faced with (proportionately) far more land loss (forcing […]