Collapse Assignment 1

One thing I noticed about Easter Island was that it was a way more self-sufficient form of society meaning that you had to farm to get your food and it had a lot of agriculture aspects to it whereas we obviously in a city where you can't farm or grow huge gardens like the Easter Islanders did. On page 10, the article also said that by the 1500s, many of the fresh, natural resources such as fish, birds, and plants to name a few began to decline and it was harder for the Islanders to get food. Then, the farmers had a harder time farming crops which was bad because it caused a chain effect of more people and animals dying because they had no food to eat and then the farmers couldn't make any money because they couldn't sell crops. This was the beginning of how Easter Island suffered from a collapse. This story of the Easter Islanders makes me think that sometime, we will suffer a collapse like this except it won't be farming or ancient techniques, it will probably be caused by an economic collapse or something having to do with global warming. I don't believe that it would be in the near future but it is bound to happen if we don't try to take immiediate action now.