Initial Research Write Up

In search of my senior project idea, I happen to run across the case of Easter Island, Chile where not too long ago went on a blood bath rampage over the exceeded amount of over population. In my search I found 3 descriptive sources that I found interesting about the cannibalism that went on after the trees were chopped down by their own society. In which I believe its so stupid in how they decided to deforest their environment like the trees, when trees are their main use to everything they need. Their trees are used for everything like using the sap that is done for their yams, the wood of the tree was used for shelter on their homes and the soil that the tree supplied to refine their wooden items. Aside from the information of the case in Easter Island, this case seems to give me an idea that can reached in a larger scale with America. The crazy scenes that follow after is the beginning of a cannibal nation for the tribes in Easter island because the urgent desire is to SURVIVE!!. For many this issue can be seen as Barbaric and immoral, but when your stranded in a island without the environments most requested supply, you have to be bound to get your hands dirty and avoid losing in a blood bath. The main factor for this result is the imbalanced fact of over population that later on open a way for other principles to join in like population drop, scarce resource and make the issue worse.

As for my senior project, I hope to tie this example in as a scenario of what could happen to the U.S. itself. As we do not believe in Forests, deforestation is our best example of showing how successful industrializing the world has been. The U.S. is simply populating way more faster than any country so far by the deed that we are able to financially maintain but yet its a choice that will soon unravel into a huge incident.

Sources

1. Easter Island Story .

2. DeMillo, Richard A., Murder, Starvation, & Catastrophe: What Easter Island Can Teach Us About 21st Century Innovation, The College of Computing at Georgia Tech, .

3. Vinocur, John, Taking another pass at Easter Island's story, New York Times, , 12/12/08.