Easter Island: A grim warning to the world
Channel: Phitalks
Date: 2018-05-29

An advanced society on Polynesians, residing on Easter Island, suddenly collapses. They knew how to navigate in any unexplored part of an ocean without using modern navigation equipment. They knew how to create 70 feet stone statues (almost equal to modern 5 storied building) and transport them across the island. 
But their society collapsed because they wasted the resources available to them. 
Modern humans are also wasting the resources available to them. Our society will collapse too everywhere on Earth if we carry on as we are.

Reference: 
Ponting, Clive, and Clive Ponting. “The Lessons of Easter Island.” A Green History of the World: the Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, 1st ed., Penguin Books, 1991, pp. 1–7.

Further reading:
Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond


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