Chapter 759 There are two trees in front of the door, one is...
The entire rise and fall of Easter Island is viewed by the entire human society as extremely objective, to the point of being somewhat indifferent.
This isolated island has become an excellent "experimental ground".
Before modern times, there were no outsiders on Easter Island. On this remote island, the sediments at the bottom of the pond were completely undisturbed. The topmost layer was the closest to the present day, and the bottom layer was the farthest from the present day.
In the 1990s, latecomers to the technological explosion explored and studied the distribution of plant pollen in the sediments at the bottom of ponds on the island, and were able to see the entire process of more than a thousand years very calmly and clearly.
In front of all kinds of evidence, it was like sitting in front of the TV and watching the entire process of the entire island changing from a lush forest to a sparse grassland.
It is also clear what the islanders eat. The most direct evidence can be found just by analyzing the garbage dumps on the island where garbage and bones are piled up. It is not necessary to find a complete dolphin skeleton to confirm that it is a dolphin. It only needs to be sequenced. You can tell what kind of animal it is.
It is the use of these modern technologies that makes a previously mysterious island gradually lose its mystery, showing a kind of cursed doom.
Without metal, the indigenous people on the island could only make do with Stone Age tools. Therefore, in 1300 years, more advanced agricultural tools, weapons, and ships did not appear, and external development was impossible to become a reality.
The people on Easter Island blindly worshiped stone statues, which also consumed huge resources and accelerated the overall collapse of the island's social structure.
"Perhaps it can be said that once a closed ecosystem begins to decline due to human consumption, it will never have a chance to rise again. It will just keep falling and continue in a vicious cycle."
Bi Fang stopped and looked at the stone statue beside him.
"Many anthropologists, sociologists, and environmentalists are now very interested in Easter Island's past because they always feel that it may foreshadow the future destiny of mankind."
Is this alarmism? No one knows the answer.
From another perspective, if the area of Easter Island were expanded 1,000 times and the population of residents on the island was expanded one million times, it would almost be the Earth.
If the latecomers also look at it from the perspective of God, and if there are highly intelligent life on the earth island, is there also a lack of key geographical conditions for the development here?
Aren’t its natural resources also limited? Aren’t they hanging alone in the ocean of space? Aren’t they also unable to exchange resources with other planets?
So will its future be an enlarged version of Easter Island? [It’s scary to think about it!]
[My brain is not working well. The doctor told me that I should eat and drink and not think too much]
[Such a huge mental pressure is not what I, a primary school student, should bear. This kind of thing should give sociologists a headache (dog head)]
[How about let me think about what to eat tonight]
[I don’t know how to dust or wax the surface of satellites, nor do I know how to design planets, care and maintain global oceans, repair or reinforce melting glaciers in the North and South Poles, and I don’t know how to refurbish nuclear warheads, but today, Thursday, Brother Fu v me 50, I Help you eat kfc]
"Yes, this kind of problem should be left to anthropologists and sociologists to deal with. I just want to cut down a suitable tree to make a boat."
Bi Fang smiled.
In fact, the disaster for the residents of Easter Island was not just that. In 1862, eight pirate ships visited the island and captured all the natives who could be used as slaves on the ship, taking away a thousand people, which was half of the population.
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All of these thousand people were men, including the chief himself and the chief's children. None of them were spared.
And the smallpox virus was rampant at that time. Like the Indians, the indigenous people here also had no antibodies. Until 1865, when a French missionary landed on the island, he counted the number of people and found that there were less than 500 people left on Easter Island.
In the next 10 years, many of the remaining people moved to Tahiti with the caravans to make a living.
By 1877, 15 years after the large-scale slave catastrophe, the number of people on the island was counted, and there were only 111 people.
The population of Easter Island dropped off a cliff like this: more than 20,000 people, more than 2,000 people, more than 1,000 people, less than 500 people, and finally only 111 people left.
Until April 5, 1888, which was also Easter, the Chilean government announced the occupation of Easter Island on that day. What followed was continuous immigration, construction, and farming. Until now, an Easter Island focused on tourism is presented to the world.
An island that is isolated from the world may not necessarily present what is described in "The Peach Blossom Spring" as "a flat land with well-groomed houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, and bamboos. There is traffic on every road, and chickens and dogs hear each other."
It is more likely to repeat the tragedy of Easter Island.
"Almost all the trees on the island now came to the island after the tourism boom in the late 20th century. They probably haven't grown for more than thirty years, so there won't be any giant trees."
"However, there are also some trees that were transplanted just because they were big enough..."
Bi Fang stopped and looked at the resort in front of him.
As a world-famous tourist destination, Easter Island naturally has many tourist hotels, which are quite luxurious. Many packages cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. After all, tourists who are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for air tickets do not care about flying thousands of miles here.
Spend more money and enjoy great service.
If it were cheaper, these people would feel it wasn't worth it.
The reason why Bi Fang stopped here was because this resort was a little different.
There are two big trees at its door, one is a palm tree, the other is also a palm tree...
Can these two trees be cut down? Bi Fang was a little moved.
After walking around the island, it has always been impossible to find palm trees that grow naturally large enough. We can only find transplanted trees, which are already mature trees.
The two palm trees at the entrance of the resort are undoubtedly transplanted. They are quite tall, with a height of at least fifteen meters. Normally, a ten-meter-high palm tree takes nearly twenty years to grow. At fifteen meters, there are no trees that are more than thirty years old.
Don't even think about it.
In addition, Easter Island is very remote. If you want to transplant trees here, not to mention the price of the tree itself, the shipping cost alone is extremely high, which shows that this resort is doing very well.
There are so many dwarf trees on the island, but the two trees in front of the resort are extremely tall, which is refreshing and adds a touch of grandeur, just like the welcoming pines on Huangshan Mountain.
What a great material!
Bi Fang stretched out his hand to touch the bark of the tree. It was rough and wide, with shady leaves and a gratifying growth. He could tell at a glance that it had been well cared for.
He recalled what the official said to him in San Diego: "Want to use the trees on the island to make a boat? No problem, just cut them down as you like. As long as you are on the island, it will be fine if you cut them all!"
You can't keep your words without keeping them, right?