Easter Island & the Anthropocene: Making Connections

3/28/2019

What is the relationship between Diamond’s essay Easter Island and our Ted Talk on the Anthropocene by Will Steffen?
- What can be concluded, deduced, learned?
- Will the lesson of Easter Island play out on a grander scale?
- Are their modern safeguards against this fate?
  - As always, please provide opinions supported by evidence. Like your Humans' & Their Societies Essay, these should, for me, be insightful and a pleasure to read.
DUE Tuesday for Honors and AP World History
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Max Hiatt

3/31/2019 03:02:45 pm

Easter island is a speed up version of the Anthropocene. We can study Easter island to get an indication of what could happen in the future. We can conclude that we will run out of resources like the Easter islanders if we continue to follow in their foot steps. The lesson of Easter island could turn out to be on a grander scale but they were completely isolated and on an island. Although we are technically on a large island so it is still possible. If we follow earths boundaries like Will Steffon guided us to do and are aware of our resources we will be safeguarded from the fate Easter island suffered.

Anthony lemus

4/1/2019 03:33:55 pm

The relationship between Easter island and ted talk of Anthropocene both talk about how people are a big influence on what happens to the environment. Also based on how the studies that people take they can infer what will happen to the society and geography. Moreover, on what we’ve read and we can conclude that people should take the blame for not only society but what they do to their surroundings. I feel what occurred with the Polynesians would happen on the grander scale because of the way the world functions. China use to have safe guard of having a one child policy to limit their population. Also how people use fossil fuels to make things functions and trying to prevent it by making things electrical. In my opinion things are gonna vanish weather we like it or not. The environment is gonna get worse and worse, we can try to prevent things but something will always find a way to weaken our plan.

Jessica Ayala

4/1/2019 06:58:05 pm

The lesson that can be learned from both Easter Island and the talk about the Anthropocene is that, although humans may seem to be at a high point at the moment, that can and will change because humans know no boundaries when it comes to how much they should mess and alter their environment, whether not it be on purpose or not. Of course at this point, we are altering our environment in negative ways and we are more than aware of that, but those causing harm do not move to fix the problems that are being caused. Easter Island is a miniature version or a version ahead of its time that shows us how, when humans alter their environment way too much, will kill their civilization and themselves in the process of trying to reach for the stars. If humans are not careful, the story of Easter Island will, and, in a way, already is playing out on a larger scale, but humans are cleverly avoiding destruction. They have many little tricks to avoid or swerve the end. When they see a problem growing they don’t fix the problem, they find a way to rise above it. When their food sources run low because of overpopulation and wasting of food, they don’t decrease the population, they just find a new way to farm or genetically engineer food to produce abundance. When they ruin their atmosphere, the just find a way to stop ruining it, not how to fix what they’ve already done. When the population gets too high, in some places, humans set laws and rules in efforts to control population. Albeit none of them really work because humans will be humans and they like to have fun times. However, we try to fix these problems with no regard for the environment. The thing is that humans don’t realize that, no matter how advanced or clever they get, they will still be at the mercy of the environment that they are actively ruining. The story of Easter Island will have to, eventually, play out on a grander scale, but for now humans have avoided it well.

Charity Terry

4/1/2019 08:25:00 pm

The point of Easter Island basically just tells us that if we continue like we are doing, we can just end up resource less and dead. The Anthropocene and Easter Island both just talk about the way we live and if we continue, we will just ruin our society into nothing. We will be living in a society that enjoys watching everyone suffer from mistakes that we made. Generations here to come will always follow in past generation footsteps. That or they will make tiny changes thinking its for the better while in the long run, it will just kill our world and society. The main idea is that we need to change little things, going back to before our society started to fall apart. We should keep things simple and not try to overdo things and end us up with a society with nothing just like Easter Island.

Emmanuel Malonzo <3 link

4/1/2019 09:23:38 pm

The connection between Easter Island and The Anthropocene is that the two talks about how us humans have such a huge impact to our world. As of right now, humans are constructing pessimistic and positive things with our world/society. Humans have already created such a gigantic mess with things, and continued, we are basically already wrecking our world. Easter Island displayed to us that if we keep pursuing what we’re doing, the more fails will happen further. Humans will start (or already have) to influence each other in a negative way. Easter Island is an example of what we do now. Humans often do, without pondering over the effects. Humans have different perspectives on things that they can do in various ways, poorly. A problem can be is that some humans tend to be close minded, etc. Though they are advanced, they still need to know that they are managing a civilization/society. We need to be immensely cautious and fix minor problems as for huge problems as well. Look back to how things tumbled down. Humans should not excessively over do anything, unless needed. But, as expected though we fix these problems or stay durable, there will always be something that will disturb it.

Winara Bounino

4/1/2019 09:40:24 pm

I see the relationship between the essay Easter Island and the Ted Talk about Anthropocene a relationship that shares similarities but also has it’s differences. As you know, Easter Island was a home to a population of people who ended up becoming extinct, because of themselves with their chaos and cannibalism. The Ted Talk about Anthropocene explains it’s definition and true reason to even being a thing. Anthropocene, also known as “The Great Acceleration”, is the age of man and how man has affected Earth. Man has greatly affected Earth’s biology, atmosphere, climate, geology, etc. I believe what can be concluded from these things, is that the human race can greatly change everything without even becoming aware of the bad affects or actually noticing and not even caring. Til the day comes where all the resources are no more, and they can’t do anything to bring it back...ending up like Easter Island. I feel as if human society can learn that we do need to stop diminishing our resources at the same time as trying to use them to our advantage. Although... that can only happen in a perfect world, with people you all want the same exact thing. With our generation today, I feel like the lifetime of Easter Island is being relived today and will be relived over and over. So, the lesson of Easter Island is indeed being played out on a grander scale. People today recognize it themselves that our society’s motives and motives behind motives are somewhat good it’s just the factors that we need to help us get to it bring bad results to our world. History will always repeat itself and I feel like changing it isn’t really possible. There is always going to be someone who thinks differently and are praised for it and all glory goes to them... until someone new with a better idea comes. Then, in the end it’s a competition to have a greater status and ideas, until everything is gone.

Brooklin Lucero

4/1/2019 10:03:07 pm

The relationship between Diamond's essay Easter Island and the ted talk on Anthropocene by Will Steffen is that they both focus on the impact humans have on the world. We can learn what not to do from Easter Island. With that story showing how the people ran out of resources on the island and we can end up like them if we follow their ways. With continuing how we treat the earth now we are going to have no resources in the future we need to change things. The lesson of Easter Island will play out on a greater scale. But if we take in the safeguards that Will Steffen talks about in his ted talk then we could possibly avoid ending up like Easter Island.

lidia garcia

4/1/2019 10:22:33 pm

Easter island and the Ted talk are both talking about the environment of before and soon might be of an era. They made towns and villages due to food supply said by Will Steffen. Easter island in a way is the speed version of Anthropocene. It is a mystery how the people could've ended there own society yet still having a great mindset of doing great things like the moving of status. They both talk about the impact humans did to the environment of deforestation, and the extinction of many sea animals and others. Trying to accept the living of Anthropocene or try to recover the Holocene. Personally, think the people of Easter island gave up on trying to recover there society and let themselves end there short run. Planetary boundaries would've been a great method for Easter island. We has the people living in the environment are unaware of the causes we do and wonder why earth is toxic. There should be a boundary where there should be a safe limit to how much humans can take from land and sea. If not we are already in the start of Anthropocene and will end up like Easter island; we should all put boundaries before it's late to move forward.

Mahalia Hanson

4/1/2019 11:13:13 pm

The relationship that can be deduced between both Easter Island and the Anthropocene is that human influence is negatively effecting the places we inhabit, even though many might argue that we are living in the best most advanced version of our world yet. The mystery of Easter Island is able to give us a glimpse of our future, and is something that our world may be heading straight towards. Easter Island is able to explain that the growing population on the island caused deforestation in order to supply canoes, houses and the massive statues, which also led to the disappearance of their very limited food sources. This is very much similar because in the Anthropocene, he argues that between 1750 and 1800, when we first gained access to fossil fuels, it lead to what he called a "human enterprise" where human population skyrocketed. Just like in the case of Easter Island, we could exhaust all of our major resources that we are so dependent on that there would be nothing left to sustain us. I don't think there are much options for safeguards now because we are already so advanced in where we are, and its not something in our society for us to go back in time; we only move forward and "advance". So unless we are able to come up with safeguards in the future like how to effectively limit population growth or finding better alternative energy, we wont be able to make a difference. But since humans really have no regard for their environments, the mystery of Easter Island will, in time, play out on a grander scale.

Olivya Cervantes

4/2/2019 08:42:00 am

The lesson on Easter island can be considered as an example of using our natural resources and having no backup. The ways humans have change our planet. We began to use up resources given to us, an force the world to make more than it can handle. As concluded in the Easter island essay and the Ted talk. The effects were on a greater scale.

Micaela Wilkinson

4/2/2019 09:23:28 am

The connection is that even though we are currently at the high point of man, so was Easter island until it had fallen victim to overpopulation and negative human environment interaction by recreating their island so much they had depleted their food sources and they saw each other as tasty, tasty steaks and resorted to cannibalism as their way of surviving. They had been unable to see into the future and prevent such things and maybe it was because they simply thought the world would always provide but since we know that we have a chance to stop this at a larger scale by mass producing food and keeping reserves for the future and also trying to contain the population. If not, we can definitely fall into this trap of resorting to eating ourselves because of our lack of preparation. Being that we know of what can happen in the future from past experiences such as the Easter Islands fall and failure to prevent this from happening one day would prove humans to be irresponsible and lazy creatures of habit.

Yesenia Gonzalez

4/2/2019 10:49:55 am

The connection between Easter Island and the Ted Talk about Anthroponce by Will Steffen is that they both talk about how the worlds environment was before humans and how it would be after our time. Will talks about how the humans at the beginning at time lived like gatherers and hunters . The reading about Easter island explains the human society and how Easter island came to an end. In the article “Easter Island’s End” in paragraph one it states,”In just a few centuries, the people of Easter island wiped out their forest ,drove their plants and animals to exinction,and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism, Are we about to follow their leader ?”.The Ted talk and Jared Diamonds Article both explain how much damage the humans did to the earth. I think that the people of Easter island had many resources to turn to and unfortunately they used them all up . That’s why they turned to cannibalism and chaos. For us not to follow into their foot steps we shall use all the new technologies we have to better our world. We all know we don’t want to end up like Easter Island.

Zoe snedden

4/2/2019 11:05:49 am

I didn’t see many connection between the two besides the fact that both talk about how humans are changing the world for the worst. Like on Easter Island, humans are killing off species left and right as trees are being chopped down by the hundreds/thousands each day. We are using more resources than needed which might lead us to how the Easter Island people went. Hell fire, cannibalism, hunger and lack of resources. The fun stuff! The connection in both the ted talk and the Easter Island essay are strong together telling a story of humans doing their casual stupid thing and using too much and not reserving some resources for things. We kill off rhinos for freaking horns for statues and medicine. The Chinese believe rhino horns were mystical As they would crush the rhino horns into a dust and mix it with medicine. For over 2,000 years the Chinese have used this method for basic illnesses like fever gout and other things.
(This was found in https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino-info/threats/poaching-rhino-horn/)
That’s an entire website dedicated to saving rhinos. This shows that humans have messed up big time. We are killing animals like it’s nothing for our own greed. I fear us Americans will pull an Easter Island and ruin the earth of its resources.

Adora Alexander

4/2/2019 12:53:36 pm

The relationship between both Easter Island end and the Anthropocene is that humans have a big effect on their environment and the world around them. Easter Island has shown us that if we continue on the path we are on right now, in the end we’ll exhaust our resources and die out. No matter how many laws and new rules that we try to in force in the community we will always find a way to ruin what we’re trying to fix wether it’s on purpose or accident, humans are very selfish and greedy people. The Easter island is basically giving us a glimpse into the future of what will happen to us later on, even though we’re advanced it doesn’t mean it’s affecting the community/world in a positive way. Easter Island shows that when human population grew it caused things like limited food supply and deforestation in order to supply canoes. The Anthropocene as mentioned in the ted talk talks about how when we first gain access to fossil fuels human population shot up. So in the end no matter how hard we try our resources that we are so dependent on will vanish sometime into the future.

Jaden Huynh

4/2/2019 03:25:04 pm

Between the Easter Island video, and the story, they both infer us about its current surroundings, like one of the statues, Moai, they both mention the statue’s construction that was held in place by a keel and collapse. They also mention the islands size, describing it to be a small ex- habitable land. Unfortunately they both mention their lack of resources had eventually led to cannibalism. They both also mention how the statues will mention our future and they also mention the Anthropocene where the story says that humans always have a big impact on the environment. They also talk about how the people on Easter Island lost resources and their greed costed the environment around them to be heavily damaged, indicating that us humans claim we’ll make the world a better place but in reality they’re always making it worse no matter what they do.

Dominick Ceniceros

4/2/2019 04:02:33 pm

The relationship between the Anthropocene Ted Talk and the Easter Island essay is that the history of Easter Island is evidence for the argument for the Anthropocene in that humans are now affecting the environment they live in. Easter Island once being a thriving island with a variety of trees and animals is now almost a wasteland hard for any number of people to survive on. We can conclude that because of the history of Easter Island and where it is now that the is now in the Anthropocene as said in the Ted Talk, we learn that even as humans are destroying the environment they live in they can still be completely unaware of it. I believe that not only will the lesson of Easter Island will happenon a grander scale, I would say it began with the beginning of agriculture and has grown at an exponential rate.The only thing that this grander scale (the world) has as an advantage is all technological advancements that it has gone to that the people of Easter Island just didn't have access to. These technological advancements have been used as safeguards we have advancements in agriculture allowing more food to be produced, synthetic goods that slow down the consumption of raw materials, new ways of generating energy. Some countries have gone as far as limiting population growth such as China's one child policy, so as to not deplete their resources.

Matthew Ceniceros

4/2/2019 04:21:07 pm

The relationship between the Easter Island essay and the Anthropocene Ted Talk is that we, humans, as a society are destroying the environment around us. From this it shows that as humans we understand the soon to be affects of our actions and way of living, and as we see the aftermath of Easter Island we understand that this will be our environment if we choose not to notice. Also as a species we are trying to prolong to the inevitable by creating not safeguards but almost speed bumps for this process. As we see now in society we are discovering new ways of transportation and energy so that we can reduce the amount of pollution. Also although we try deduce the idea of Easter Island on a larger scale it is very improbable to be able to get humans as a whole to come together and not only prolong but stop the process. However, no matter what we do, we are in the hands of our environment and once we run out of certain thing it is gone and that's it. Therefore, it may not even be in the near future but the destruction and the inability to thrive off of our environment may come.

Jaslynn Knight

4/2/2019 04:24:04 pm

Easter Island and the Anthropocene both tell us about the impact that we as humans have on the world. The people of Easter Island went extinct because they were reproducing fast and they were destroying the environment to the point where their resources couldn't regenerate enough to provide for everyone. Easter is a good lesson of what could happen if we don't start being more responsible. As far as I have learned, there are no safeguards because of how far in society we have come. We have all sorts of new and advanced technologies that distract us from what's going on right outside our doors. I think that if we are not careful the lesson of Easter Island will play out on the grander scale. However, if we start changing our ways and respecting the earth then there's a possibility that we can prevent that from happening.

Evelyn Trujillo-Guevara

4/2/2019 04:42:18 pm

The relationship between the Easter island and the ted talk on the anthropocene by Will Steffens is that they both talk about how we as a race are going to be destroying ourselves in time. Just like the Easter islanders who in just a few centuries wiped out their forest and drove their plants and animals to extinction and of course the end of their civilization. Although, we may have safeguards that help us like recycling or saving animals like protecting the species who are about to go to extinct, but at the end of the day we are doing more damage than good. We are extracting more goods than producing to keep the raw materials alive or animals in the future. However, the whole real connection between the two is that the ted talk by Will Steffens is talking about the era of which the Easter islanders lived through in a way since their civ. was so advance that they were the cause of their destruction, and how we as a race are heading slowly just like the Easter islanders were heading towards the end of their civ. and are race too. Will goes further in depth to explain what the era is and how it will play out in a grand modern scale, but the Easter islands are a great example of this since they became adavance and the population grew and there was a demand but like i said they were doing more damage than good to Fullfill their demand and in a way that’s how modern day is. It may not be in are life time that this may happen, but in are future and for our future generations.

Samantha Robles

4/2/2019 04:55:25 pm

The essay, Easter Island, by Jared diamond and the Ted talk of Anthropocene by Will Steffen, both talk about the damages people have done to the environment for their own benefits. They both come down to showing that humans have destroyed everything that has been created naturally in our environment. In the essay, Easter Island it gives us examples of multiple things they’ve found that they believe once existed in the island but went to extinction due to human greed and need. For example it says, “every species of native land bird became extinct.” Also “wood was no longer available for fires” and “fish catches declined and porpoises disappeared from the table.” However , in the ted talk Steffen talks about how the advancement in technology has affected the earth terribly. During 1750-2000 the greenhouse gases have affected the earth remarkably, due to more new advanced Human Resources. Overall, the things happening to the earth, the geological changes, the extinctions, the pollutions, the advancements, everything, has all been done by humans. For the natural instinct of wanting to advance in resources and explore places further from home.

Sarah Campbell

4/2/2019 04:58:45 pm

The lesson we can learn from Easter Island and the TedTalk called Anthropocene by Will Steffen is that our human environment and interaction is negatively affecting the Earth and its environment. In Easter Island, we learn that Easter Island used to be a beautiful place with subtropical forests, bushes, and food that can easily sustain life. However, by 800 CE, evidence from pollen analysis shows that the island’s forests were getting destroyed and by the 1400’s to 1500’s, plants including the palm and the hauhau tree were extinct due to populations using the forests to build canoes, homes, and ropes. Also, food including shellfish, sea snails, sea and land birds became extinct which prompted cannibalism and the increase in chicken production. All of these factors sadly cost Easter Island and now is desolate. This event is a piece of evidence for Will Steffen, who explains in his tedtalk that the Anthropocene occurred due to the new use of fossilized resources and a change to the biology of earth, which never occurred before in world history. With these new advancements, humans can have better and easier lives. However, our use of these resources have caused pollution, killing species, acidifying the water. Similarly to Easter Island, if we as a global society do not change our use of resources what happened in Easter can occur here but bigger, globally, and much more damaging. The chances of having safeguards in order to stop this catastrophe is slim, because humans are greedy or simply don’t care about the negative effects that occurring worldwide everyday. I personally believe that the human race won’t stop their depletion of resources and in the future we will have consequences for actions

Samantha Walters

4/2/2019 05:14:19 pm

The relationship between the the Ted talk and Easter island explain and gives examples on how humans have effected the world making it evolve with the changes we make. For example the Easter island opening says that people of Easter island wiped out their forest and made their plants and animals lead to extinction. Which connects with the ted talk because it talks about the world going into different eras that humans put it threw and Easter island gives examples of how they change climate and geology just like said in the ted talk about anthropence. What we can take from this is how humans don’t pay attention to what they are really doing to their environment and will end up with nothing, no resources and supples in the end because we are taking from the earth making it worse just like in Easter island. But for it to be planned out in to a grander scale I believe it is because it’s getting worse year by year because we are doing a redo of Easter island to this earth. Change isn’t an option for it today because it’s repeating as we live because there are people creating things everyday, take the industrial revolution as an example people invent newer and efficient ways to create things in mass quantities but was it good for the earth with the factories polluting the air? There is going always be something new to come because people want wealth and status but not going to realize until we have nothing left.

Rodrigo Sanchez

4/2/2019 05:35:03 pm

The relationship between the Easter Island essay and the Ted Talk is they both talk about the topic of humans evolving/adapting to their surrounding, affecting their environment and migrating around the earth, The Ted Talk leads into the easter island essay by describing that people began to migrate to new lands and wore out there resources affecting their environment that later affected them and the species of the island. What we can learn from this experience is we shouldn't ignore the effects we have on the environment like the Easter islanders did who learned the damage they did to their environment the hard way because of their tireless usage of there resources with no precautions, We must always investigate the effects we are having on earth whether it's the soil, oceans, animals, weather or atmosphere we are affecting it can threaten us with disease, death or even extinction if we let things get that out of hand. We can learn a lot more about our effect on the environment because of the Easter Island example and use it as encouragement to never let something of that magnitude happen again because of the effects it will have on everyone. There are many groups of people such as The environmental protection agency, Global Green Growth Institute and The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and many more who keep track of the environments changes and causes and thrive to keep the world healthy while trying to diffuse mankind's destruction of it like pollution, global warming and greenhouse gases. There is also a day dedicated to our appreciation to the environmental protection agencies who keep the environment healthy and the encouragement of telling people to go outside and enjoy the world in the outdoors called National Earth day.

David Soriano

4/2/2019 05:59:06 pm

Easter Island and the Anthropocene have a close relationship, Easter Island’s fate is the result of resource depletion and habitat destruction, exactly what’s going on right now. We know that the civilization on Easter Island were the only ones to blame for their demise, extinction of plants used to creat canoes and houses to animals such as birds essential for food, and we can learn from this, this should teach us to be weary of what our actions as humans are doing to the world around us. I do believe the lesson form Easter Island will play out on a greater scale if we keep ignore the harm we cause, in just 800 years after it’s settlment a whole island began to become destroyed, this shows us how huge of an impact humans have. Humans have been around for about 2 millions years and have steady been the cause of vase amounts of extinctions from animals to plants, considering the fact that Earth has been around for 6 billion years. Though there has been several attempts to help prove my out own exciction like the use of renewable energy, electric cars, and reduction of green house gases if we keep ignoring the warning signs and learn from history, we will no doubt be the cause of our own extinction

Kaitlyn Reyes

4/2/2019 06:15:30 pm

The relationship between Diamond’s essay ‘Easter Island’ and our ted talk on the Anthropocene by Will Steffan is that they are both similar. For example, they both address that we as humans are a huge impact for our environment.Everything we do affects it. It’s basically saying that if we keep doing the things were doing we’re gonna end up like Easter Island, and everything is just going to be a mess. In Easter Island we learned that if we don't learn how to use the things we have here on earth we can end up being like them. This is why it all depends on the Anthropocene or otherwise known as the age of humans. For example, now that technology has become really advanced we have basically poluted the whole earth and this is one of the things we can start to change to help better our situation.

Catherine Coker

4/2/2019 06:42:16 pm

The relationship between Easter Island and Anthropocene is that how human beings is a big impact on society/environment. If we live the same way we continue, we will end up destroying the society & environment. Easter Island talks about group of people ended up being extinct because of chaos and cannibalism, where there is no more resources. In Anthropocene, it talks about how man have affected the earth. We learn that people are unaware while they’re destroying the environment they live in. We have all this technology now so we should use it wisely to not end up like Easter Island, or the lesson of it will play out on the grander scale.

Divine Concepcion

4/2/2019 06:57:00 pm

The Easter Island and the Anthropecene both talked about how humans affect the environment. Jared Diamond’s Eastern Island is the best example of how the people destroy their own land and resources. Easter Island is telling us what had happened before and how the people didn’t care about their surrounding and just cared about themselves. It states that when they destroyed the island’s animals they also destroyed it’s forest. Before the island had subtropical forest, woody bushes and grasses but after the arrival of humans the disaster started. People killing animals in order to get their meat, cutting of the trees that led to deforestation and destroying the island’s huge statues. At the beginning Roggeveen said that the problem of the statue is that we can’t accept the fact the people before can build these kind of stuffs without enough tools like wheels, draft animals or even a source if power. Towards the end of the Easter Island it states that people care more about themselves than the place where they get all the stuff they need in life. The Pacific Northwest loggers said “Jobs over trees” and this shows how inconsiderate the people are about their environment. On the ted talk of Will Steffen about the Anthropecene states that the humankind’s impact brought change to our environment but it was also being changed beyond recognition. Steffen said that if we could just act fast then we could avoid our environment to not be destroyed. He said that a great acceleration happened that it led to a new era. World Wars made a huge impact in the great acceleration because this created a huge technological change. If we still have time then we could save the environment and not go through a drastic societal and economic change. If we live the same way as before than we would not make a change. It all depends on us whether we make a move or let our world be destroyed.

Erik Martin

4/2/2019 07:04:59 pm

From the Easter Island essay and to the Ted Talk of the Anthropocene, and from what we know, a similarity we know for sure would be the fact that us humans are the reason why we are ruining our society and environment as both have talked about it. An example would be the fact, in the essay Essay Island, we do see them destroy the environment, from planting being almost gone, the fact we don't know when to stop, if we kept on going, it'll all be gone and maybe the end for us, we need to learn how to use what we got in earth. Now that we have the better technology than at the time Easter Island, our safeguards would be our new tech. Although not every new tech would be so good as we know, some of our tech does cause pollution and that is also one of our problems we have for modern era.

Monserrat Jacobo

4/2/2019 07:21:40 pm

Human have a big impact on life. We control what goes up and what goes down. In the Easter Islands End Jared talks about how the people of Easter Isaland didn’t really think of how things would end or what they did would cause suck an ending. They cut down every last tree they had to where they had to make fires with not wood but grass. “Jobs over trees”, they did what they had to do in order to survive as long as they could. Even when they were running out of food supply they found a way. Of course there might have been a smarter way of handling their situations but it was in the moment. If we live like they do we could end up getting rid of ourselves and turn on each other, or eat one another. We have to be smarter and can’t be selfish. Will Steffen and Jared both know what could happen if we live like they do and maybe if we continue living like we do now it could lead to major chaos. We’re already polluting water and air, main sources we depend on to live. Sometimes the idea people have to make the work a better place should be taken seriously so we can live longer and the generations after us can live in a nicer world and so on. Learning not to take advantage of what we have because we might need it at some point. We have a big role in this world and we could immediately make it a living nightmare.

Fatima Bernal

4/2/2019 07:52:37 pm

We can learn from the article ‘Easter Island’ and Ted Talk ‘The Anthropocene’ that the human society have an impact on the world, meaning as the human society continue to find several ways to survive through our resources, we are also impacting it in a negative way. The Easter Island had talked about how the former Polynesian society had their surroundings come to an extinction to satisfy their needs and to survive, the author had mentioned that the common palm tree of the Easter had come to the end in the fifteenth century as well as their forest, which caused them to find other resources to replace the palm but the Polynesian also drove other resources to extinction. Similarly, The Anthropocene had concluded that our human advancements are also impacting the world negatively. For example in between the years of 1750 to 1800 the human society had found a way to use fossil fuels such as crude oil that gets turned to gasoline to fuel our cars; when the fossil fuels are getting burned, it discharges toxins and causes air pollution. Also, the rates of the direct impact of humans in the loss of tropical forest and woodland have gone up ever since the year 1950. Therefore, the Anthropocene and Easter Island is an acknowledgement that as we continue to be dependent on our resources and impacting them negatively it will soon become extinct, that will cause us to do to the same thing that the former Polynesians have done to the Easter Island and it will become a constant cycle.

Benjamin Casilas

4/2/2019 07:54:56 pm

The relation between the easter Island essay and the TED talk was human's effect on the environment and vice versa. When we were in our early civs, we were at the mercy of our environment, needing to follow our food and collect it for ourselves. We were only able to migrate out of Africa because of the lowering water levels creating a land bridge. But now, the Earth is bending to our will, and not in a good way. The people of Easter island abandoned the island after using up lots of their resources, driving organisms to extinction, leaving the structures to he taken back by nature. It has happened before to other civilizations and we could easily be next. We are doing what the people of easter island did at an exceptional rate, we can affect the environment so much harsher than before, with greenhouse gases and constant pollution. The fact that this has happened a few times is proof enough that this could happen again. This is a very real situation that, if nothing is done to help, could lead to a hit to the population of all human, possibly even extinction.

Affiniti

4/2/2019 08:00:21 pm

The main idea of Eater Island and The Anthropecene is to justify the fact that humans are destroying the earth whether they know it or not. They seem to not care if the world ends because of over population and/ or lack of food resources or any resources at all. Humans in today’s age will end up like the Easter Island people, losing all their resources and going extinct. I feel like if people were to start fixing the problems with the world or even attempted to they wouldn’t be consistent because they wouldn’t see any change right away and they wouldn’t be patient to see their progress they could’ve made with the world. So therefore they’d be back at square one, where they are now, destroying the world. The new technology the worlds inventing isn’t rebirthing the earth in anyway because as I see it it’s only making the users, the people, lazy and dependent on technology which means they feel like they don’t have any consequences for they’re actions or they won’t even reflect on them. If people do not start to make good life decisions now, the world will corrupt and there will be no stoping the destruction then.

Quetarro Keever

4/2/2019 08:09:29 pm

Diamond’s Easter Island and Will Steffen’s Ted Talk on the Anthropocene both relate man as the cause to large and extremely devastating environmental effects that could (or did) lead to man’s untimely demise. Easter Island details the fall of Easter Island societies at the hand of man, and the Ted Talk links many of the environmental changes in the current age to human action. Most notably from Easter Island, we learn that the effects of human-environment interaction may not always be noticeable, being that the forests of Easter Island did not disappear in a day, and such circumstances (unaccounted for) can very well cause civilizational collapse, as it did in Easter Island. From the Ted Talk, we learn that ignorance and inaction will (obviously) not fix the varied strains that humans undoubtedly place upon the environment, and only through recognition and setting boundaries on how we utilize the environment, can we protect it and in turn protect ourselves from collapse. In order to determine whether the history of Easter Island will reflect the history of humankind, we must consider how Easter Island compares to our current time. In both cases, humans exploited their natural resources to facilitate their growth. The majority of humans also failed to acknowledge (or take action against) the danger they faced by continually exploiting their environment. However, our current societies are far more advanced than those of Easter Island, and are far better at exploiting the environment. In addition, we have more access to resources and a greater variety of resources than the societies of Easter Island did. Based off of this understanding, our current societies should be more likely than not to collapse simply due to our increased and unchecked exploitation of the environment. However, our advanced societies have several technological innovations (books, written history, the internet) that the societies of Easter Island did not. Such innovations may save humanity from repeating the history of Easter Island, as access to these can eliminate the ignorance that caused the collapse of Easter Island. While there aren’t many restrictions or limits on how humans exploit the environment, our access to information and the past should promote action that acts in the environment’s (and thus our own) best interest, before it is too late.

Kristina Cuva-Scheible

4/2/2019 08:15:23 pm

In the article about Easter Island, the author explained how researchers discovered the land to be lush and abundant in trees. Now Easter island only has weak short trees, little species variety and is covered in mostly shrubs and types of grass. From this we can take the knowledge shared in the ted talk about the Anthropocene, and deduce if we don't change our ways, Earth will be just like Easter Island. Since society in some aspects has started to realize the devastating factors of our biochemical foot print, there have been efforts to slow down the deterioration process of our Earth. Organizations have set up campaigns and spread their word about things like recycling, using metal straws and shortening water usage. With this clear cut example of how humans trash land, we should learn from our mistakes, not repeat history and adjust accordingly as a collective unit. What is it we can change that the inhabitants of Easter Island didn't, why not get ahead before its too late and make the change now. If humanity doesn't find a turning point, it wont happen in an instant, but the quality of Earth will fail to the point of no return and Earth will be the bigger sister of Easter Island.

Giselle Marquez

4/2/2019 08:30:03 pm

Easter Island is summing up the video we watched Anthropocene by will steffen. When I read Easter Island I get a sense of what will happen in the future of the human race. I can sum up that Easter Islanders ran out of resources. As we do the same as the Easter Ilanders did we will do the same and run out of resources. In Easter Island it is possible to turn out to be a grander scale. It is possible but the Easter Islanders were isolated.Since us humans nowadays live on a big Island it is really possible for us. In conclusion if we are to follow the directions Will Steffen gave us we will be safeguarded from Easter Island fate/ what they suffered.

Daniel Gadaleta

4/2/2019 08:40:27 pm

What can be learned out of the text on Easter Island and the Anthropocene Ted Talk video, is that we as humans are the ones who obviously have the ability to either create or destroy the world. The relationship between the Anthropocene and Easter Island is that if humans aren't able to change their ways of forming the world and the future, the world is going to become a grander version of Easter Island, in which humans should realize what they're doing to affect the planet as a whole, especially with the use of resources. Unfortunately for the population of Easter Island, they had to cut every last bit of everything as their form of survival, without really any contact with the outside world. The Anthropocene on the other hand, is very much common to Easter Island in the way that Earth is being shaped into Easter Island, but at a much slower pace. If humans don't come into any sort of realization soon, the opportunity of a turning point will eventually disappear, ending at a similar fate as Easter Island. With the education of humans and smarter generations nowadays, there's a possibility that there could be a safeguard preventing any sort of catastrophe from occurring, but it would definitely not be easy, considering the smallest bit of everyone's laziness would have to come to an end.

Serena Yu

4/2/2019 08:40:44 pm

Will Steffen shows how the Earth will slowly end up like Easter Island. Easter Island was an island that had a organized society but soon suffered due to boundaries that they had crossed. The lesson has the potential to play out on a grander scale, finding ways to prevent them from happening would help but sooner or later humanity would collapse due to any of their self-made problems. People could try to find ways for more food and water for a large population to sustain itself on would only be a temporary solution, people would soon need more room to live. With the population doubling and food growing at a slower rate than the population, many people would end up starving. In Easter Island’s End, it shares how the Polynesians couldn’t hunt larger prey to feed the rising population. They had invaded an isolated island that was home to many animals. They realized how much food they had had and ended up using all of their resources. Their chance of surviving on the island was uncalculated to them, they had no outside resources showing to us an eminent death.

Janasha Wesley

4/2/2019 08:45:36 pm

In the essay Easter’s island by Jared Diamond as well as The Ted Talk of Anthropocene by Will Steffen created a connection realizing the society was destroying the environment. Particularly, humans are ruining both our society and environment. For instance, Easter’s population kept growing and they just kept running out of more supplies, lacking their resources. Life started to become uncomfortable to live knowing that everything was becoming into a huge disaster by leaving humans with nothing. Likewise, in the future we can possibly run out of supplies with the additional humans that start spreading rapidly around the earth with such limited space. Easter Island will be played out like a grander scale but for now humans are avoiding it as much as possible to not cause destruction. However, there are many solutions that can be prevented instead of living in a disaster but how many new solutions will be made throughout our lives, there can only be so many. Many solutions repeatedly include having a problem then later that leads to disrupting the plan that was once created. When humans run out of ideas and get too exhausted, it will lead us to think it being the end for all.

Mario Robles

4/2/2019 08:49:22 pm

The relationship between the Anthropocene and Easter’s Island is that they both involve humans taking advantage of the earth and ruining its natural course. I would elaborate on how humans are ruining the earth and how we should stop, but it seems like everybody already did. What I find more interesting is that we’re already accustomed to ruining the earth that only little things such as throwing away straws and the ideology that one should not eat animal products is what angers our society. In Easter’s Island they knew what they were doing was wrong but they went along with it, an example of this being how they ate humans or kept on burning trees when there weren’t any left for their own needs. This is basically happening with modern society, we do damaging stuff to our planet such as driving a car or buying gas, but since we don’t want to feel guilty we distract ourselves by buying metal straws or becoming vegan. So basically what I’m trying to say is that the lesson of Easter’s Island was learned, but not being put in affect since all we are doing is distracting ourselves with made up problems so we do not have to face the real one which is that we are in the Pre Anthropocene.

Alexis Arroyo

4/2/2019 08:59:35 pm

The similarity the two sources have is that they both go on about how big of an impact humans have when it comes to affecting the earth itself. Humans tend to have no limit and do whatever is beneficial at the time without thinking about the long term effects. All of these progressions forward just tend to bring the possible ending of humans closer on the time line. Looking at the situation on Easter Island, we can see how humans really change the environment just to "benefit" themselves. The deforestation and ruined ecosystem will eventually come back to bite us, but at the moment that is not what's in mind. Humans could possibly fix this issue, but the problems occur faster than a solution can be made.

Laura Thean

4/2/2019 09:03:06 pm

The Anthropecene TED Talk and the Easter Island essay both discuss how humanity has negatively impacted the Earth due to ignorance, and their purposes are to inform the people about evidence about the past proving how carelessness ultimately leads to the environment's destruction. Even in the pre-colonial eras where industrialization wasn't present, the inhabitants of Easter Island still managed to deplete their island of food, resources, and biodiversity, eventually having to resort to cannibalism. Us humans are influenced by optimism bias, and we don't realize the repercussions of us further contributing to climate change because the positive effects overpowers and clouds our vision of the negatives. For example, there were many jobs for Easter Islanders that depended on deforestation, which distracted from the dangers of continued deforestation. In the TED Talk, Steffen mentions how periods of the Earth's history are determined by changes in biodiversity, and extinction rates are up 100 to 1000 times more than during the pre-Columbian eras. The absence of setting worldwide boundaries of how much humans can take from the environment whether it be animals for food or fossil fuels, combined with greed, is driving Earth to eventually reach a similar fate of Easter Island because civilization won't last forever if we keep up these wasteful habits. We're at the point where there has been so much damage done to the Earth, and this can make people just accept the Earth's fate willingly because trying to reverse the damage seems pointless. However, by educating people about where past civilizations have gone wrong, we can be more informed about the impact we have on Earth.

Kim Kailei

4/2/2019 09:05:39 pm

Easter Island gives more of an actual example of what could possibly happen to the rest of us if we continue not doing something to drastically improve our environment. The ted talk gives us more of a science aspect of it, and even includes the data parts and things that we need to focus on to improve climate change. Although we are working on climate change, our population is increasing too fast to keep up with. The United Nations need to take climate change into account and make climate change appear as the big issue that it is. We need to start fixing it now, or who knows how long we'll have on earth. Climate change isn't the only issue though, if it was, maybe this would be easier. We need to work on deforestation, the pollution, the excess chemicals in the atmosphere, the ozone, etc. With people of power denouncing that "Climate change isn't real" or doesn't matter, this means that the people of power wont be able to influence others to do the right thing.

Stephen Nelson

4/2/2019 09:08:29 pm

The relationship between the Easter island and anthropocene is the fact that humans are destroying their environment which will lead to our living conditions to deteriorate and become a wasteland. We do have the opportunity to turn this whole situation around and make a better future for us to live in, but that would have to involve everyone lending a helping hand in the whole movement, and as we know not everyone is gonna be on the same page and if everyone isn’t then what’s the point in helping our future. Theirs no point what so ever it’s just a movement that will help the earth and our environment, but it won’t stop the deterioration of the planet cause everyone isn’t helping. In today’s time everyone is lazy and doesn't want to contribute to anything that will help our future and prevent the living standards to revert to older times, as in the time before the industrial revolution which had lead way for all the pollution to begin which set the anthropocene in a more rapid motion.

Jonathan Guzman Reyes

4/2/2019 09:14:49 pm

In Easter island story it mostly talks about how the people in Easter island killed themself by wasting there supplies and when they used them all up. They were forced to move or find a new food supplies, and in the Ted talk video it mostly says that the era we are in is no more because humans have change the environment around us making a new era were we change the earth. And both of these sources talk about how we can destroy the resources around and change our way of living?

Flerida Beltran

4/2/2019 09:15:09 pm

The relationships between the Easter Island and The Ted Talk by Will Steffen, is that they both talk about how the humans are adapting in certain ways.Firstly, in the Easter Islands it talks about how it used to be a beautiful island with a Forests with a lot of trees and food so they can survive for a while. Some examples that they used their trees from their forests were to build canoes, ropes, and homes for themselves. When they ran out of resources they had no food, so it caused the Easter Islanders to disappear. Likewise in the Ted Talk by Will Steffen, he talks about how The Anthropocene had said that our humans were impacting the world negatively. For example throughout the years people had found a way to use fossil fuels such as oil and it would turn into gasoline to fuel our cars, But due to fossil fuels were getting burned, and it would cause air pollution. Due to all of this I believe that we should change things step by step, and not in a rush or we will end up with resources just like The Easter Islanders or even end up destroying the world even more.

Gerardo Rodriguez

4/2/2019 09:17:17 pm

Easter Island and the Anthropocene are the exact same thing. Easter Island is almost like a summarized example of the Anthropocene. Easter Island showed what would happen if we, the people of earth, continue to abuse the limited things the we have in our possession. There are many lessons that we can learn from reading Easter Island like, not to ruin our plants, don’t let our animals go extinct, and to not ruin out of things like fossil fuels. Therefore, as you would expect, we are simply ruining the world by doing what the people on Easter Island are doing. However if we listen to the boundaries the Will Steffen thought of we just might be able to turn our planet around and not follow in Easter Island’s steps.

Nathan Romaine

4/2/2019 09:23:38 pm

The relations between "Easter Island's End" and the TedTalk about Anthropocene are that they both talk about Civilizations coming to end indefinite and horrid ending. The events of Easter Island are the same concept of Anthropocene just on a much smaller scale. This being because they are burnigb through the resources of an Island as Will Steffen was explaining Anthropocene from a worldly perspective. Thus leading to the same conclusion that the resources we have are not infinite, and this leads to the issue of what people will do to get food when the only thing left are the people around us. Easter Island making us lead to believe that cannibalism is the move when there is no other food left to eat. This means that Easter Island and Will Steffen's TedTalk are alike in the way that one is just a smaller scale fast forwarded version of the other.

Ruth Abera

4/2/2019 09:24:43 pm

On Easter Island from Diamonds essay and the Ted Talk on Anthropence by Will Steffen creates a tie between both informational essay and video. Both address the human affect on the natural resources and that we are the forces to destroy and vanishes our world. As mentioned in the essay Easter Island was a beautiful place when humans arrived but due to so much usage of resources and humans using every bit such as their forest, animal, plants and etc of materials for living , that caused them to ran out of resources without knowing it could've happened. Going from extinction, human lead their life to harsh point and didn't comprehend to where it is right now. Although in Anthropence, it talks about how human are the factors for our environment to end up in terrible ways. Hoping that it will promote a lesson for the society in a grander scale because if we don't see and transform our living ways and don't look around, the same consequences and reputation will occur in the future in our world. To create a preferable and comfortable environment for us unlike the Easter Island people we should take lesson and learn from them because it had happened once and we can't guarantee that there are no possibilities for us not go the same path like them. In my opinion, we should stand for the right decision made in our world because we live, grow and evolve in this place.

Megan Kelleher

4/2/2019 09:28:00 pm

Both Easter Island and the Anthropocene are pieces of evidence that prove how humans are affecting the environment that we ultimately need in order to survive. The anthropocene is considered to be the new era that is concerning scientists for the near future, Easter Island is a piece of evidence to back up their concerns. Easter Island for example, was a lush subtropical forest, but now it’s been reduced to a wasteland because of human interaction. We’ve learned from both pieces that humans often times don’t even realize they’re destroying the environment, which means that they won’t realize until it’s gone completely. This was the case with Easter Island, the migrants didn’t realize that the supplies they needed wouldn’t grow back as quickly as they harvested them, and this is why many species of vegetation have since gone extinct. It seems as though the lesson of Easter Island will in fact play out on a larger scale simply because of the way humans are and the need for supply and demand. People however have tried to put safeguards to stop a certain problem, like China limiting the amount of children per household or placing a protection on a species near extinction and it ultimately seems to have helped. But what needs to be understood is that once something is finally pushed to extinction, there's no going back. And I don’t think humans understand that concept enough, it’s not something people tend to have a fear for; a fear that one day something major will disappear and cease to exist. Which is the most concerning thing right now, because once everything else is gone, then we’ll be next.

Nicole Aguayo

4/2/2019 09:34:50 pm

The conclusion of both the Easter Island text and Anthropocene TED talk is that if we continue pushing our boundaries we'll end up like how the Easter islanders did, which obviously didn't turn out well. Humans have a big impact on the environment, We are very good at complaining about how we're killing the earth, yet we don't actually do anything about it even though we are very aware of what is coming our way. As talked about in the Ted talk, the new resources that are being used to better our lives and make easier and more advanced are also causing pollution, which is slowly killing us and the earth. The Eastern Islanders were such an advanced civilization, but they later began to exhaust their resources to benefit themselves, just like how we are doing now. There isn't much we can do to stop the Anthropocene from happening, but by following the boundaries that Will had talked about in his TED talk, we can slow it down even if it is by a little. But in my opinion, we as humans are too hard headed and don't care enough to do anything about It, and nothing will be changing any time soon.

Ixchel Sanchez

4/2/2019 09:39:45 pm

A strong relationship between James Diamonds essay and the ted talk on Anthropococe is that they both strongly agree with the thought that humans have created an effect on the world. In the ted talk , he explains that an epoch is where a stage of a certain creation forms a “dent” in the timeline of the worlds existence. The reasoning for my belief is because if you look back , dinosaurs or any animal before mankind weren’t able to create new methods of education , medicines , maybe an empire but never to find control of thousands or millions of people . Easter island shows to explain , that even when the islanders didn’t have much , they worked with what they got and made a presence with their work . One can conclude that humans have been able to create a title for themselves even if some could be selfish or doing things for their own glory , it’s how objectives get tested to establish the right from wrong. You could obviously forthwith that more humans have been produced in the last centuries or so , making humans dominant for the most part . Easter island plays out on an isolated island , and they didn’t even know other humans existed . I don’t feel like we could go back to that way it use to be because the education and technology is completely different . The world could only hope for better actions but there really isn’t a way to prevent what’s going to happen , even if one wishes for world peace , a mind can only follow rules or rebel .

Isabel Dunkley

4/2/2019 09:53:59 pm

Both the Ted Talk by Will Steffane and the magazine story called "Easter Island's End" by Jared Diamond are closely related, they both are a form of wake up call for us as humans to see what we have done to the world around us and what may happen if we don't change out ways. In the Ted Talk, Will talks about Anthropocene which is term that names our era as humans and mostly focuses on the change of our environment by humans, he not only hits us with that powerful term he also uses visual aids and voices facts that just support the fact that we are slowing killing our planet and causing a anthropocene. In Jared Diamond’s “Easter Island’s End” He talks about Easter Island and how the affect of humans lead to extinction of plant life and animals and ultimately changed the that islands climate dramatically for the worse. Both these informational pieces provide evidence that if we do not change our ways and make a “planetary boundary” for us a race we could ultimately end up like Easter Island with only shrubs, tiny trees, and wee bugs or sadly even worse.
The way that the lesson will actually be learned is when it either directly affects people (more than it already has) or if there's a rule or law made (plus a consequence) to stop all the different harmful habits we have now and help fix the planet before it’s too late.
There are barely any safeguards that governments have put on certain lands and ocean areas about either hunting certain animals, harvesting certain plants, destroying natural order, and polluting in anyform. The laws that they have made aren't well maintained and don't have big enough consequences to stop the ones who want to break them from doing it. For example there are laws against hunting for whales, rhinos, elephants, and sharks but yet it still happens everyday. Why? There are countless reasons but it's hard to stop this from occurring because of the inability that the government has at limiting the amount of hunting and watching what every single person is doing and the laws that have been made and announced numerous times don't scare people out of intentionally breaking these laws. So as much as we have tried to add safeguards most of the time they don't work out.

J'lyn Junio- Mineishi

4/2/2019 09:57:55 pm

The relations between Eastern Island and the Ted Talk on Anthropocene is that humans are destroying the environment around us. In the Eastern Island text it states that the people of Eastern Island wiped out their forests and drove their animals and plants to extinction. This is exactly what the Ted Talk was explaining when he said that humans are in a sense degrading the Earth, since we do have such a great impact on the Earth. The lesson of Eastern Island will be a "grander" scale because we today still do what people years before us did. We are slowly killing the Earth and striping it of it's natural resources such as fossil fuels, coal, and petroleum. The reason that us humans continue to do this to the Earth is because we allow ourselves to do so. We are very lazy and rely on the Earth for everything and expect it to withhold everything we are throwing at it when one day the whole Earth is going to be an Eastern Island.

Laisha ochoa

4/2/2019 09:59:23 pm

The relationship between the anthropocene and Easter island are the same . Why because as said in the essay from diamond Easter Island was a beautiful place once thriving without human contact just how the world used to be without human contact it soon came to an end. In the essay it states when Easter island came incontact with humans it slowly started to not become a beautiful place to live because the islanders used the tree for conas, animals for food, depleading the pollen consumption for the earths soil and population stabilization in animals . just like Easter island ,earth today isn’t starting to look nice with pollution extintion, and climate change. Easter island is bascallly a faster version of the anthropocene. Modern day resources are depleading just like the resources in Easter island. It lead to canablism. What if we didn’t start to farm ,what if we stayed as hunters and gathers. the ted talk and the essay is giving us hints on how to stop it .to put boundaries on everyday consumptions of resources . An Example the ted talk said we need to put boundies on carbon dioxide because it’s depleading /pollutiong our layers of atmosphere. Inconclusión we should try to prevent the uprising of the anthropocene cause just like islanders of Easter island life on earth could be more devastating and painful to bare.

Christian Pena

4/2/2019 10:01:09 pm

The relationship between the Easter Island and the anthropocene TED talk can be compared very well BUT the anthropocene can be seen in a larger percentage of people. In both these articles we can conclude that there’s argument with evidence of how we are ruining our own societies and change is needed or the whole planet can experience what happened in Easter island. For example, the population of Easter island kept growing and growing which resulted in a higher demand of resources. Which made it people in Easter Island harder to survive because of the demand of resources. Also with this we can set in perspective how fast the population’s global growth. If we don’t change or act now we can end up like Easter island. Easter Island is just a smaller version of what can happen to us.

Kobe Gonzales

4/2/2019 10:11:52 pm

Jared Diamond's "Easter Island End" and Will Steffen's Ted Talk on "The Anthropocene" both discuss how man has evolved and used our natural environments/ surroundings to our advantage. We can infer conclude from both of these sources that through mans actions we have shaped and changed the world to our liking wether it is superb for our planet or not. The story of Easter Island is only a smaller version of the bigger picture of what's to come if humans are not careful. The people of the island were cutting down all of their trees, food was declining, and agriculture was rapidly diminishing. Due to their growing population, they had to come up with a way to help sustain for this new shift in number of people. Much like todays ages, our planet is constantly growing and with this rise in population, we are finding new ways of trying to nourish and fulfill these new needs. Much like Easter islands population, the people were using more of their resources before they can even regenerate. Steffens ted talk shares how we need to have "planetary boundaries" much how parents teach kids boundaries and rules, so why can't we have them for out planet? The path we are going down in terms of how poorly we are treating our planet will only be the inevitable waiting to happen. Modern safeguards could include population control, preservation of resources, cleaning our environment, etc. Going back to planetary boundaries, we have no rules regarding how we can clean our environment, at least not in the U.S. The Anthropocene is defined as "the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment." so with planetary boundaries we may be able to help our earth escape the same fate as the people from Easter Island. Our world as we see it are more worried about problems which can't even compare to the likes of the fate of our planet. Diamonds essay states "Why didn't they look around, realize what they were doing, and stop before it was too late" people are blinded by the day to day actions in which we are so used to doing that we don't notice the bigger picture. In comparison to our worlds slow mass destruction, we dont realize that our planet is being destroyed with every passing second because of how we normalized pollution, climate change, world problems. Sounds an awful lot like Easter Island and Earth as we know have similar stories...

Jonas Castaneda

4/2/2019 10:13:00 pm

The relationship between Diamonds Easter island essay and the Ted talk about the Anthropocene. Is the Anthropocene it self. In both Diamond’ s essay and the Ted Talk we can learn how our world is slowly dying in front of our own eyes. The conclusion is that us as a generation are given the information and knowledge to realize that their is a problem to fix. In Diamonds essay it states that we have book’s and Easter island it’s self to learn off of. In the Ted Talk it show’s us statistics on earth’ s status. Eastern island is one of the best example of how a “paradise” turned into a wasteland. The society in Eastern island destroyed their own environment chopping down trees killing their animal’s at a endlessly rate until of course animals became extinct. The greater scale is Earth. The difference is the information we have this information has helped create safe guards. Such as fining people for littering. However as we can see safe guards like these don’t necessarily help our environment it’s like taking off one little fly on a dead cow. The other flys are the problem the world have and us as a human race have to be the exterminators.

Eduardo Laurean

4/2/2019 10:20:09 pm

The Easter islands article is a perfect example of a sort of small scale anthropocene. An example foreboding what could happen everywhere on a much larger scale. Islanders who severely impacted their environment and caused irreversible damages to their island. Overextending on resources was brought up in both Will Steffen’s TEDTalk and the article by Jared Diamond in Discover Magazine. With an over abundance of resources humans naturally want to use everything available to them. Sometimes without much thought of the consequences. This will definitely play out if no safeguards are put in place. Safeguards like limiting the use of pollutants and slowing the decrease rate of biodiversity. Without limits, our populations will continue harming the planet with no real plans to reverse any f the damgesb already made.A great future ahead of us!

Mykel Orchard

4/2/2019 10:25:01 pm

Diamond's essay on Easter Island relates to Will Steffen's TED Talk on the Anthropocene because it shows the inevitable outcome of what will happen to Earth on a much smaller scale; Easter Island. This outcome is, humans will use all Earth's resources and Earth will become pretty much inhabitable just like Easter Island. The natives of Easter Island depleted it's land and animals by overusing them until they weren't able to grow. Just like the early natives of Easter Island we are depleting Earth's natural features that are key components for our survival. An example would be us causing our ozone layer to diminish in size due to our use of nasty chemicals. From the fate of Easter Island we can learn not to completely diminish our resources til we become extinct. We can do this by trying our best to preserve our natural resources and come up with cleaner and more efficient options for power. The lesson of Easter Island will play out on the grander scale only if we use the lesson from what it has told us. If we head in a better direction now we might be able to stop the inevitable outcome of Earth becoming inhabitable. Some modern safeguards that might help prevent us from ruining the Earth is ability to get in contact will almost all the world and set some global standards we should all be practicing. an example of this would be limiting use of natural resources and limiting freshwater use. If Earth continues to get destroyed by humans we better hope Mars has freshwater.

Ricardo Aldana

4/2/2019 10:35:04 pm

The Relationship between the Easter island story and the Ted talk we heard about the "Anthropocene they both show us how man kind has taken advantage of earths materials but in cause to that lead to different kinds of pollution. For example the people that lived in Easter island ruined it as they created pollution and killed the animals to extinction. I think Easter island is what the Ted talk was talking about the Anthropocene and how humans are damaging the world the same way they did to Easter island. Showing people these events crests safeguards such as laws that help the environment or people who form animal awareness groups. Easter island will play out on a grand scale as what happened there is happening throughout the whole world now.

Malea Farrimond

4/2/2019 10:35:19 pm

The relationship between easter island and the ted talk about the Anthropocene are completely different stories and yet the are exactly the same. It’s crazy to think about but our world is slowly becoming Easter islands reality. For example in the story easter island Diamond first talks about how the humans adapted to their surroundings. Eating the food and animals originally there on the island. isn’t this what we did in the world! We had humans adapted to our surroundings. This is the 1 similarity between easter island and the Anthropocene. Secondly Diamond talks about how the settlers started to build things like homes and statues, you know things that actually make a place home. they also began farming! This is all good news except for the fact that they had to start cutting down all the trees, bushes and plants to make room for their new living conditions. This happens in the world every single day. We cut down not just 1 tree but hundreds to make room for that new whatever but don’t realize that this is just the beginning of the end. My third and final example of how the Anthropocene and Easter island are very similar is when Diamond starts to talk about how things are going extinct or just diapering all around these settled people. Diamond talks about how the birds are not coming back because the people are destroying their homes. Diamond also states that because they are cutting down trees and plant life all round them they are having a hard time finding food anymore! sadly these settlers had to start living off rats and big snails because they distroyed everything around them. I think that if we don’t start fixing the way we think, how we act, and how we just do whatever we want no matter the consequences. We are going to be in a world of hurt physically and mentally speaking. The world doesn’t want to end up like the people of easter island, eating each other just to stay alive. The world wants to be a place where milions and millions more people can live without the fear of the world ending in the back of their minds. we have to fix the way we are living or our lives as we know it will change forever. The Anthropocene is coming but it’s up to us to choose the out come. Are we going to survive? or we all going to become easter island?

Alejandro Cabrera link

4/2/2019 10:39:06 pm

The connection we can make between Diamond's Essay and Will Steffen's Ted Talk on the anthropocene is that humans are shaping the environment in a way that might end up in the destruction of mankind itself. In Diamond's case the inhabitants of Eastern Island shaped their little environment in a negative way which caused the destruction of the community. In the argument made by Will Stephens he stated that humans are also affecting the Earth's biological processes in a negative way but it hasn't caused the end of mankind, but if we keep this attitude towards Earth then we might be heading for the same fate as the Eastern Island inhabitants. In other words in Eastern Island and in the whole world humans are affecting Earth negatively but only in Eastern island the destruction of the environment ended up with the destruction of those who destroyed while at a greater scale we as humans might be headed the same way but in his presentation he also stated that we are not too late to prevent Earth from entering a new era and rethink our decisions and maybe create some planetary boundaries for the sake of not just humans but all living organism in this beautiful planet.

Jose Hernandez

4/2/2019 10:47:55 pm

The relationship between Diamonds essay Easter Island and the TED talk based on the Anthropocene by Will Steffen share direct correlations between them. In the essay “Easter Island” the author talks about the destruction of a “paradise” ,the Easter Island before and after it was destroyed by humans and their unintentional destruction of their habitat that drove plants and animals to extinction. The TED talk, talked about a new epoch or era known as the Anthropocene. Based on the TED talk the Anthropocene is said to have begun right when humans have altered the earth greatly and have caused major geological problems such as the increase of greenhouse gasses and overuse of natural resources. There is an obvious correlation between the two, The Easter Island is like a tiny miniature version of the earth. We are altering our environment to a point where we are slowly detiriorating it but we have done so much within a few decades that the Anthropocene epoch marks this change. Through both legitimate sources we can conclude that of course we are killing our only earth slowly but surely, although not that slowly since we’ve seen a vast change within only a few decades. We may learn from the city of the Easter Island that we have to move and advance precautiously always adhering to the way nature should be and not excessively deteriorating the environment. If we continue destroying our planet it will be a grander version of the Easter Island, we will have to live in poverty, result to cannabalism, and live in extreme unhygienic conditions just like the people on Easter Island did. Although our generation probably won’t see any of this(so long in this country), what about our future generations? In today’s society there are many people that are creating safeguards to stop this from becoming our fate. Many associations such as the NOAA and NRDC are created to conserve earths water and biodiversity, laws are also created to protect wildlife and boidiversity as well (such as hunting licenses and limit). There are also many national parks such as Yellowstone that help preserve wildlife. If we continue raising awareness for issues that affect the planet many people will take action and create conservational groups that might save our planet from “extinction”, although we will die one day anyways, everything has an end and a beginning.

Gracia Vargas link

4/2/2019 10:52:19 pm

The relationship between the Easter Island essay and the Ted Talk on Anthropocene is they both deal with the environmental state and how the geological features are. They are mostly about the evolution of humans and the environment. It’s how everything changed and became something different. Humans went from chimps to looking like an actual person. Our environment used to be filled with plants and animals everywhere, now we have buildings and houses everywhere. Things change to become better over time, life right now will be so different from 50 years from now. Things change, that’s how life goes. Nothing ever stays the same, at least it never did in our civilizations. “The vanishing touches us as the disappearance of other animals, even the dinosaurs,never can.”(Easter Island essay) Dinosaurs used to live among our earth, but humans and geological features changed and allowed things to turn different like how the Earth was shaped and what it looks like. The lesson of Easter Island will play out on a grander scale because it goes beyond what we imagine and there’s still many things left to learn that we all have yet to discover.

Diana Aguilar

4/2/2019 10:53:45 pm

The deduction that can be made from both documents is that we humans are exhausting the resources of our planet. The lesson of Easter Island can be played out on a larger scale. The forest trees from Easter Island are an excelent example of what is happening right now. The palm trees on Easter Island started to decrees due to the deforestation along with populatiin increase caused by humans. Just like these palm trees we are using up all our resources. If we keep doing this there will be less and less resources until finally, there is nothing left. This not only negatively effects us, but all the flora and fauna around us as well. We are all connected, we rely on eachother. This is one of the reasons why safeguards are against this. In the Ted Talk about the anthropocene, Will Steffen explains that he along with a group of scientists have developed an idea about humans having boundaries. Just like the Easter Island document, Will Steffen explains that resources are running low. As population grows food and other assets will decline as it is said on Easter Isalnd. The future is in our hands. We decide whether we tilt the scale in our favor or against us.

Nicolas Maule

4/2/2019 10:54:07 pm

anthropocene and Easter Island is overall telling of a chilling story of if we are not careful right now we will end up as the people of Easter Island, In the story the people used all the land and abused it's land for its own use and that would of led to the end of themselves by leaving no human alive they would kill their own people to eat them to survive, now how this connect with anthropocene it's overall road we are paving, the destruction of us as a species and the earth it's self, we are ending our natural resources, trees in the amazons that provides air for most the earth, are now being cut for mostly wood furniture, and plantation of soy sauce, and etch of other things ,and even to food it applies, example the tuna sometimes you eat is not tuna rather some other fish's because we are depleting our sources to fast to keep up with us, and killing other species. In the Ted talk it talks about this new age of how we are becoming very advanced and changing earth and their right which is chilling and scary, and if we don't take care of the earth let's say bye bye forever . But there is ways to prevent this horrible ill fate, we can try to make alternatives to paper and pencils, more plastic that is recycled or can be recycled like ikea does to some products, encouraging low carbon emissions by cutting taxes for people whom own cars that do not emit carbon a lot or making cars like tesla by Elon musk more affordable for the common person and try making renewable energy like Germany, and involve yourself in acts like Green New deal and more in government. If this done we can prevent a future like the Easter Islander people.

Kenneth Martinez Anaya

4/2/2019 11:02:11 pm

Will Steffen believes that we are now entering a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is a period where human activities has become a dominant influence on climate change and the environment. Easter island is an example to what would happen when humans have exhausted all the resources in their country or the world. The inhabitants of Easter island food source was porpoises and was a third of the bones discovered on Easter island. They did not live in a place where fish was abandoned due to the cool climate for the coral loving fish unlike other Polynesian island where the environment was perfect for fish to live because of the their location which is why 90 percent of bones are discovered in Polynesia island or countries. Due to porpoises being one of there main sources of food the people of Easter island had to make boats out of palm trees in order to hunt porpoises offshore. Another source of food Was sea birds but rats outnumbered the bones of fish found on the island, it’s the only Polynesian island that rat bones outnumbered fish bone. The palm trees that were necessary to make their tools were not able to reproduce due to the invasive species of rats that were brought by the inhabitants of easter island which ate all the palm nuts. The tree was one of the most import resource they had on the island which was necessary in order to hunt porpoises using canoes but the trees were also not able to reproduce due to the extinction of native birds that helped pollinate the trees. Easter island is an example of what can happen if humanity exhausts the resources of the earth and were not able to make anything because they no longer had oil to mine iron or no longer have trees and forest to cut down and make houses. The inhabitants of Eastern Island exhausted all the resources necessary for their survival that they slowly died out and left a different landscape and species of animals left on the island due to their influence to the environment. Easter island is what will happen to the world but in a bigger scale and more devastating. We do not have much control over our influence to the change of our climate due to the demand of products increasing as the population increases. We will eventually lose the capacity to produce what’s needed for the people to continue to live.

Dominic Phimthasak period 4

4/2/2019 11:12:00 pm

The relationship between both the essay Easter Island and the Ted Talk with Will Steffen on Anthropoece is about how humans are affecting the environment and society in a negative way. They talk about how us, humans, are using our resources to survive but this causes a negative impact on earth. In Easter Island, it talks about how they had run out of resources because they were using too many too fast. This was happening also very fast because of the population on such a small island. This could happen on a grander scale in the world as a whole because humans, we don’t care about what we are doing unless it affects us in a negative way. Also because many people have so many kids, this could affect how much resources we have for the human population. Many things can be learned and taken from these two sources, but one main thing to be learned is to not take our resources for granted. We will keep using everything we need until it affects us but we don’t realize it until it starts to come so then it will be too late. We can conclude that us, humans are the main cause of the changes, good or bad, happening to the earth and our surroundings. Yes, there are many safeguards to save the environment and the world around us such as electric cars, laws on amount of children, recycling, etc. But will these things actually stop us from using the resources we have on hand?

Jordy Arellanos

4/2/2019 11:23:51 pm

The relationship between Diamond's essay and the Ted Talk is that they both really emphasize on the fact that humans have a huge impact on the reason of all big world problems. What I have captivated from it is that us humans can be pretty cruel and stupid. Think about, we can be so careless. We won't care till its too late and we realize all the problems we were causing knowing very well that we could've possibly fixed the problem. I don't think the lesson of Easter Island will play out because using from what i heard from the Ted Talk, we are above a 3.75 and we shouldn't even be reaching a 3.50 so we obviously can't take a hint.

Nicole Gonzalez

4/2/2019 11:27:01 pm

The Ted Talk on the Anthropocene and Diamond’s essay “Easter Island”, we can learn a very important lesson that we as humans have been taking what we have and using it to our own advantage, not really focusing on the effects on how these actions will harm us in the future. Humans are constantly developing in history, and as we develop, we are pushing boundaries that shouldn’t be pushed so greatly as we are doing now. These actions of altering and changing the environment we live in is taking a toll on our world and we are not considering the fact strongly enough that these modifications will and could possibly end what we have progressed so far. History is a great demonstration that people even before us has managed to cause destruction among their civilizations without the advancements and technology we have now. You would think that obtaining this knowledge of past humanity destroying their world would be a warning to realize if we are following that same path. Easter Island is a great example of a human society thriving off the resources they had but taking it too far to the point of destruction. Nowadays, we know that we are harming the environment by the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, deforestation, extinction of animals and I could go on and on but we don’t stop because we are dependent on those problem’s benefits. Just like how back in Easter Island, they were dependent on deforestation which made them blindsided of the future effects of it. We humans have been proven to be selfish with they way we are treating this world; making it ours and depleting it from it’s value. In the Ted Talk, Stephen talks about a plan to set up boundaries for this planet, but being humans, selfish and greedy, we act like there are no boundaries when it comes to modifying this world. With the evidence and progress we hear about everywhere of how the Earth is being negatively impacted, it’s similar to reading back about Easter Island. Sooner or later, our actions will lead to a fate related to Easter Island because this world isn’t made for us to live on it the way we do. Now, there are methods to help try to reverse or help the problems we have caused but it’s all about informing our generation and the future generations of the past history of humans failing to not destroy the environment they live in. There are actions we could take now to try to resolve some issues like trying to produce more electric cars or create laws about having a certain amount of kids but it’s only if the world realizes that we are part of this catastrophe and it is up to us to prevent it.

Albert Henry

4/2/2019 11:52:18 pm

The essay regarding the fate that Easter Island had endured and the lecture regarding the Anthropocene both teach the lesson of environmental backlash as they reveal the effect humans had caused on the world through their actions inflicted onto the environment: the tearing down of trees the Easter Island inhabitants had done and the pollution caused by human industrialization. According to Will Steffen from the Anthropocene, the gasses, especially greenhouse gas, caused by factory pollution and agriculture has set an era of which we cannot leave, for though we may reach the highest point of economy, the world will begin to decline as extinction rates, scarcity, and corrupted resources rise. The story of Easter Island is a real life allegory for the downfall of man as the greed consuming humans have left little care for the world’s environment. More and more does the world become aware of this danger upon us, yet little do people commit towards protecting the world; humans are lazy. While many attempt to find solutions to this issues, greed has appeared once again, for it seems that these solutions are expensive- the price only motivating humans to take the more harmful option. The world we live in may commence another extinction as we become the new dinosaurs, but out downfall is not of a collision of space but of the drive of greed. The new race of dominance may as well be the cockroaches who can survive the pollution.

Javier A Martinez

4/3/2019 12:24:08 am

The relationship is that they both describe how human interaction with our environment can greatly affect or change it completely. This may easily play out the same in any place in a bigger or smaller scale as evidenced by a variety of past events. We can see this play out as global warming due to the production of greenhouse gases and the large deforestation’s caused by human societies. This affects the unique environments all over the world that cannot survive the change, such as coral reefs slowly decaying due to increasing water temperature, the destruction of whole habitats such as the polar caps melting, even in a smaller scale it can be catastrophic. In the past the introduction of predatory species to foreign rivers has caused the extinction of many species of fish. Although these are all caused by humans, modern safeguards and measures cannot prevent the damages from growing and they are even less than unable to revert the change that has been triggered. The proof is in front of us today and from it we can deduce that our attempts to shape the environment can cause a great number of benefits that eventually create just as many issues that’ll wipe us out. Just the same way a person’s body gets rid of bacteria, the environment will eventually do the same by making itself inhospitable to us humans who consume all it has to offer until the only left to consume is our parasitic selves.

Roger Contreras

4/3/2019 02:27:38 am

The relationship between diamonds essay of "Easter island" and the TED talk on the on the "Anthropocene" by Will Steffen is that we can conclude both of them tell us how we humans are ruining the earth every day. In Easter island it tell us how people living at Easter island was they were barley learning about them self and how to live much efficiently appose to TED talk we are very much aware that we have entered a new epoch of the Anthropocene. We see the problem and its occurring one step at a time, for example , pollution, carbon dioxide levels rising, climate change, and resources are running out. We can fix it but we don't do anything about it. In TED talk Will Steffen says that during the time we are living on the planet the carbon dioxide is isolated at 180-280 but its maxed out at 300 parts per million it is now 387 parts per million, much of an increase, we are also going up 2. per million a year. What we can learn about this is if we take this journey of ruining our beloved earth we will eventually go extinct or vanish from earth leaving every thing behind, just like the Khmer, the Maya, and the Anasazi. The lesson of Easter island will catch up to us meaning in the future for our next generations there might not be one and if there is its going to be people they'll be fighting to survive barely on the brim of life but those people will runout of resources soon, and will die. There is no safe guard if we keep running out of resources to use and to eat, later generation will have to deal with our mess we created because we are too lazy to fix it.

Julio Montenegro

4/3/2019 09:37:37 am

Easter island is like a lab experiment we didn’t know we were doing. Now that it is done and we can see the effects there actions brought to pass we can see what we as humans populating the planet are doing and how that’s similar to what Polynesians did on there small scale earth. Sure they were once a thriving society with an established government and rules but the population growth was so much that they ran through there resources and didn’t address that all the deforestation they were doing was harmful. That’s where the anthropocene ties into this, we are populating the planet to the point where we have to do more to harm the planet to keep all the people here fed and sheltered. A key differentiator I feel we have from our Polynesian ancestors is that we are agnolging the problem, we see the future and there are people and countries trying to slow this down from happening by making reservations conserving animal species but like it’s said in the Easter island essay “islanders who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation should have been overridden by vested interest” their vices can be drowned out.

holli jackson

4/3/2019 09:53:07 am

The relationship between the easter island and the anthropocence is that humans are pretty much controlling the world everyday. What the humans don’t understand what they are doing in there daily life that is going too effect humans in the future. What the humans are doing are actions that are over stepping the parts that they shouldn’t be and effecting the environment. Easter island is a example of humans using and over taking there society for resources which there is not that much when you live on a little island. Us humans now are infecting the society buy all the animal distinction and the carbon dioxide being put in the air and much much more. The same thing was happening online easter island but instead of carbon dioxide and animal distinction they are suffering from deforestation. But we (humans) need too notice the problems and find ways too fix them because they are destroying the the earth. Some countries have made incentives for not have more than one child to reduce there resources.

Perris Manuel

4/3/2019 10:14:36 am

The Eastern island is considered the more summarized version of the Anthropocene.They talk about the impact us humans have on the environment.Easter Island was a home that consisted of a population of people who starved so much they resorted to cannibalism to survive.The article shown us that if we continuously do the things we do in the end we’ll exhaust our resources and they will eventually die out.Humans tend to always take us ten steps back even with several laws we put in motion.Also the growth of population has been a big factor in the environment because the more we grow,makes the resources get low eventually making the resources get low which will have the community using something similar to “survival of the fittest “.
Even though we’re technically considered advanced and keep advancing it only put an hold on the community affecting it negatively.

Katelyn Davis

4/3/2019 11:01:40 am

As I read and watched Easter Island by Jared Diamond, and the TedTalk of Anthropocene I came to the conclusion that within both subjects they talk about the wrongs and damages we as people caused to our world and what we can possibly do to help improve it. As an example in the text of Easter Island it talked a lot about the natural resources we once had, and how we use them for our own selfish reasons little do most people know slowly but surely it has a negative impact on the world we live in today. Unfortunately for the people who once lived in Easter Island they had to do use every last of the things they had to survive without any interaction from other countries. In addition to the passage Easter Island, we also watched a TedTalk that talked about the Anthropocene which basically said the way we treat the environment around us is going to make us have to go through the struggle that people of Easter Island had went through. If us humans don’t take into consideration the habitat we live in and be more cautious with the way we live then the future lives living on our environment like our kids, grandchildren, etc. Will be the ones to have to deal with our consequences.. If you were to leave this world knowing that the choices you made are the consequences of your children and grandchildren would you still continue to take advantage of our environment..?

Rachel Knecht

4/3/2019 08:19:43 pm

The lesson that comes from both easter island and anthroprocene are that environments are extremely changed by humans. Easter Island is the foreshadow of our future as humans. Us humans will eventually kill our environment to the point where we will end our own existence. For example, in Easter Island it is completely deserted, with only 47 species of plants. The cause was the people of Easter Island abusing their environment. There is a law in countries like china where there is a limited amount of children per household that helps with population control. This reduces the demand for resources. Humans are ignoring simple ways to save our future and the future of our environments. What happened in Easter Island is very likely to happen to the whole world considering the way we treat our earth.

Isaiah Orozco

4/3/2019 08:19:53 pm

A relationship between Diamonds’ essay and the ted talk on Anthropococe is they both agree with the thought that humans have created an effect on the world. The ted talk explains that an epoch is where a stage of a certain creation forms a dent in the timeline. We can tell that we as human are making ourselves look bad and ruining this planet. Easter island plays out on an isolated island and they didn’t even know other humans existed. We can’t go back to how things used to be because our whole way of living is set now and the technology is completely different.

Berueal Goshu

4/3/2019 09:18:35 pm

Making Connections
What I concluded from the two is that Easter island is a rough draft of anthropocene. To get a full understanding of anthropocene we need the definition. Which is the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity both show how humans have an dominant influence on the climate and the environment. Which then I have deduced that Easter island and anthropocene shows how humans have impacted the environment in a negative way. It’s basically emphasizing that we are the problem to everything going wrong in this world. I feel like the industrial era had the biggest impact by using a negative method of production for EFFICIENCY. Such as pollution, exposure to earth for gold and silver, etc. Easter island is a great way of showing a what will happen if we don’t stop. I feel like there are no safeguards with the amount of distractions in our world. We are more worried about what nba team Zion Williams is going to than deforestation. I feel like it’s getting worse because we are currently undergoing overpopulation. At this point the only stop/save this is shoot half the population to space.

Jazzlyn Roel

4/3/2019 11:27:39 pm

The relationship between “Easter Island” and our “Ted Talk” on the Anthropocence is that they both exploited their natural resources to the point of no return . After reading both articles, many things could be concluded. One being that if we are not conscious of the effect in which we have on the eco-system and the delicate balance, we will cause irrefutable damage to our environment. The lesson of Easter Island will definitely play out on a grander scale for the simple fact that if man kind continues to put their greed before the benefit of man kind then we will continue to repeat the vicious cycle of destroying the only place we inhabit. There are many organizations that try and help save the environment by informing others the importance of it but it takes a great amount of individuals to take part in it in order to see results.

Alex arpero

4/4/2019 07:32:54 am

The relationship between the easter island and the ted talk about the anthropocene was that in the talk he talked about how we are entering in a new age and in the paper they talk about how they used to burn vegitation and plants on the island

Omar al

4/4/2019 09:55:03 am

The anthropocene is the age of man the fate of the earth is I'm their hands every thing we do effects the earth every ton of fossil fuel or every square mile of forest is cut down effects the earth slowly. The people of Easter island didn't realize this they put the interests of the aristocrats and bureaucrats above the needs of the land they cut down all of their trees which not only affected the amount of wood they had but everything else it's destroyed the ecosystem with out the trees the soil became eroded so they couldn't plant much food they over hunted animals causing them to go extinct they continued to spiral down until they had to start eating each other.

DJ Johnson link

4/4/2019 10:44:51 am

They talked about how we use up to many of our resources more then it can replenish. Easter island was first thought to be barren place when a Dutch explorer Jacob Rosen “discover” it, but after seeing the statues people theorized how it came to be like that the first people who settle there use up all the resources like trees for rope killing them off faster then they could replace them. Jobs over trees showing human’s iragance for nature this could happen in a much larger scale som would theorized so there are safe guards against it like anti logger nature reserves CO2 output regulation in cars. Evan though there many guards it’s in all over the world so it’s causing global warming. This story tells us to not focus on non renewable resources but on alternative ones like nuclear, wind, and solar.

Jenni khamsanvongsy

4/4/2019 05:09:08 pm

The relationship within the “Easter Island” essay and the Ted talk about the Anthropocene is that the civilization of the Easter island led to the destruction of their environment, the Anthropocene is an epoch in which people are destroying and altering their environment, it marks a change in earth. Both the essay and the video are related because the Anthropocene is a larger scale of the effects that the Easter Island suffered. We can conclude that we are slowly destroying our earth just the people of the Easter Island did, we are polluting the earth, destroying our atmosphere and destroying our natural resources. We have to learn from the demise of the Easter Island and pay close attention to the interactions of humans with earth. We are living in a grander scale of the Easter Island as when it was on the verge of collapse. We are experiencing similar effects that the Easter Island people experienced such as starvation in certain places and lack of resources. In today’s world there are some safeguards that are protecting the planet such as governments that protect national parks and certain wildlife.

Tyler Guiberson

4/5/2019 09:52:26 am

Easter Island was a small scale version of what we are doing to the Earth and what will happen if we dont find more efficient ways to live the way we do. The inhabitants of Easter Island depleted the island of its resources resulting in a barren wasteland. Our whole planet will have the same fate unless people change. Easter island and the anthropocene are similar in that the people are using all of the resources faster than they can come back.

Miguel Ramirez

5/5/2019 09:04:59 pm

The relationship between Diamond’s essay “Easter Island’s End”and the Ted Talk on the Anthropocene by Will Steffen is how the era of humans came to the resulting in the creation and destruction of certain things. In Easter Island’s End, Diamond writes about how a civilization came to an end after the misuse of the resources found on the island. The Ted Talk mentions how life on earth will fail to exist if we keep mistreating our resources, like the ones on Easter Island.
What can be concluded and learned from both of these sources is for society to manage their resources as quick and efficiently as possible. “Unlike the Easter Islanders, we have histories of the past-information that can save us. My main hope for my son’s generation is that we may now choose to learn from the fates of societies like Easter’s,” Diamond states. Those Islanders as we learned had a terrible fate, but humanity today can learn from previous mistakes, so that we don’t end up having the same incident. There are some who say that history repeats itself, but in a situation like this, we should try our best to prevent the destruction of humanity, again. Steffen graphs indicate that the Earth is traveling down a different path that we definitely don’t want to go down. The graphs also show that us meeting the agricultural demands, for example, certain aspects rise. For example, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the amount of tropical forests destroyed during this process.
I believe that the lesson of Easter Island will play out on a larger scale. Obviously humanity doesn’t really see or believe it yet, but we will when it’s the most “beneficial” to us. We don’t really rush to solve the problem until the problem is almost destroying us. We should put more urgency in this matter, seeing how the Islanders did not, and we know what that resulted into. We need to start telling their story to bigger and broader crowds to educate the whole world on what is happening to our home, while we still have it.
There are modern safeguards against this fate, seeing how life itself seems to reappear after horrific times. A few examples of those safeguards would be protecting endangered and close to extinction animals, plants, lessen the use of fossil fuel, and more. With protecting said thing and using or even elimination the use of fossil fuel it will prevent further damage already made by humanity. This is not something that we can afford not to protect, change has to happen now.

Anaitzel c herrejon link

5/6/2019 08:43:40 pm

The connection between Easter Island and The Anthropocene is that both of them talks about how humans have an impact on the world on what we do. We have already created such a mess with things we are basically already wrecking our world. Easter Island shows us that if we keep doing what we’re doing, the more we will destroy things and humans will start to in affect each other in a negative way. Easter Island is an example of what we do. We need to be cautious and fix the problems we cause as well. To wrap It up basically either we fix what we did now or it will be already to late.

Arleth Morales

5/12/2019 09:45:27 pm

Diamonds essay on Easter Island, and the ted talk on the Anthropocene by Will Steffens, both suggest the same thing in the aspect that humans have a huge negative impact on the world, due to their major dependence on resources. If we keep depending so much on the world so easily, we will end up like Easter Island whose people "wiped out their forest, drove their animals and plants to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism. Easter Islands was small and carried a much larger capacity of habitants than it should've, leading to overusing of resources way too fast. This too can happen too us as our population increases. An example of our harm to the world include factories which leads to pollution, similar to Easter Islands issue on them only having two species of small trees resulting in no real source of firewood. We can conclude that we are the reason that the world is the way it is, and just like in Diamonds essay where he states that Easter Islands " first impression was not of a paradise, but of a wasteland" we will end up like that too.

Taylor Arellano

5/20/2019 01:26:24 pm

Both, Diamonds Easter Island, and Anthropocene talk about human interaction with our world and how we have a huge impact on what’s going to come to our planet. Just like Easter Island, humans of the current generation are starting to learn the importance of our world and how we can potentially fix many of the problems we’ve caused. I think yes Easter island will play out on a grander scale and that grander scale is us as humans and our planet earth. We first need to understand what we are doing wrong. For instance, trash and plastic. It’s Causing lots of harm in our ocean environments. In conclusion , The main points of both is to better take care of our environment as it is the only one we have.

Paddy Byrne

5/22/2019 11:10:49 pm

Diamond's essay on Easter Island relates to Will Steffen's TED talk on the Anthropocene because it shows the inevitable outcome of what will happen to Earth if we keep blowing through our natural resources like the Polynesians did on Easter Island on a much larger scale. If there aren't any changes as to how we're using/wasting our limited natural resources, the whole world is gonna end up the same as Easter Island. There aren't many safeguards protecting us from destroying our own planet, forests are cut down every day, our oceans are flooded with plastic and garbage, CO2 emissions alarmingly high, etc. Governments aren't listening to what science is saying concerning our well being in the next 5-10-25 years, but instead ignoring it. We don't have any safeguards set. It's indefinite that if we don't start stepping up and making changes, we're not gonna be around for much longer. Until Elon figure out a way for us to thrive on Mars (and eventually f*ck up that planet too) the Earth is all we have for now and we're not doing a very good job of properly taking care of it. Eventually we're going to be fighting each other over the much needed natural resources and our world will turn out like weird sci-fi movies predicted, much like the Easter Island inhabitants.

Easter Island & the Anthropocene: Making Connections

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