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There is an Island...
One of the world's most famous yet least visited archaeological sites, Easter Island is a small, hilly, now treeless island of volcanic origin. Located in the Pacific Ocean at 27 degrees south of the equator and some 2200 miles (3600 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, it is considered to be the world’s most remote inhabited island. Sixty-three square miles in size and with three extinct volcanoes (the tallest rising to 1674 feet), the island is, technically speaking, a single massive volcano rising over ten thousand feet from the Pacific Ocean floor. The oldest known traditional name of the island is Te Pito o Te Henua, meaning ‘The Center (or Navel) of the World.’
It is now recognized that the original inhabitants of Easter Island are of Polynesian stock (DNA extracts from skeletons have confirmed this), that they most probably came from the Marquesas or Society islands, and that they arrived as early as 318 AD (carbon dating of reeds from a grave confirms this). It is estimated that the original colonists, who may have been lost at sea, arrived in only a few canoes and numbered fewer than 100. At the time of their arrival, much of the island was forested, was teeming with land birds, and was perhaps the most productive breeding site for seabirds in the Polynesia region. Because of the plentiful bird, fish and plant food sources, the human population grew and gave rise to a rich religious and artistic culture.
WHERE DID ALL THE TREES GO? The history of Easter Island is rich and controversial. Its inhabitants have endured famines, epidemics, civil war, slave raids and colonialism, and the crash of their ecosystem; their population has declined precipitously more than once. In 1722 when Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen visited the island for a week and estimated there were 2,000 to 3,000 inhabitants on the island. The overall picture for Easter is the most extreme example of forest destruction in the Pacific, and among the most extreme in the world: the whole forest gone, and all of its tree species extinct.
There is an Island...
Floating there in Space, an Island called Earth
Today, there are 7.6-Billion Human Beings living there. The land-mass is only 30% of the globe, from which all must find food, living space, and resources.
Fires continue to rage in the Amazon, according to local reports.
John Cain Carter, a rancher who runs Aliança da Terra, an environmental accountability group for agricultural operators, says that the fires are the worst he has ever seen in the region.
"I have never seen fires this bad," he told mongabay.com. "The fires are even worse than in 1998´s El Niño event."
NASA satellite images released at the end of September confirm widespread burning in the Amazon state of Mato Grosso.
We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
The Rainforests are the Lungs of Island Earth. Already the Oxygen percentage in the atmosphere is declining.
This destruction is so ranchers can graze more cattle, and so Oil companies can extract more oil, and the 'timber' is needed for the more and more people as the Global Over-Population continues unchecked.
Well, maybe you can see where this is leading?
That Island Earth will not "magically" grow larger to accommodate more people. Fresh resources will not drop from the sky like "manna from heaven."
The Need to LOGICALLY, RATIONALLY, HUMANELY
control and reduce the Human population on Island Earth has become critical.
'Nuff said fur now. THINK.
THINK some more.
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