Chapter 762 There Are Two Trees in Front of the Door, One Is

The entire rise and fall of Easter Island seems extremely objective to the entire human society, so objective that it is somewhat indifferent.

This isolated island has become an excellent "experimental field".

Before modern times, there were no outsiders on Easter Island. On this remote island, the sediments at the bottom of the pond were completely undisturbed. The surface layer is the closest to the present, and the bottom layer is the farthest from the present.

In the 1990s, the latecomers who had a technological explosion explored and studied the distribution of plant pollen in the sediments at the bottom of the pond on the island. They were very calm and clear about the entire process of more than a thousand years.

In front of all kinds of evidence, it was like sitting in front of a TV and watching the entire process of the entire island changing from a lush forest to a sparse grassland.

What the islanders ate was also clear. The most direct evidence could be found by analyzing the garbage dump on the island where garbage and bones were specially piled up. It was not necessary to find a complete dolphin skeleton to determine that it was a dolphin. It was only necessary to sequence it to determine what animal it was.

It was the use of these modern technologies that made the mysterious island gradually fade away from mystery and show a kind of cursed doom.

Without metal, the island's indigenous people could only make do with Stone Age tools, so in 1,300 years, more advanced agricultural tools, weapons, and ships did not appear, and external development could not become a reality.

The blind worship of stone statues by the people on Easter Island also consumed huge resources and accelerated the overall collapse of the island's social structure.

"Perhaps it can be said that once a closed ecosystem begins to decline due to human consumption, it will never have a chance to rise again. It will just keep falling and keep on going in a vicious cycle."

Bifang stopped and looked at the stone statue beside him.

"Now many anthropologists, sociologists, and environmentalists are very interested in the past of Easter Island, because they always think that this may indicate the future fate of mankind."

Is this alarmist?

No one knows the answer.

From another perspective, if the area of ​​Easter Island is enlarged by 1,000 times and the population of residents on the island is enlarged by a million times, it can almost be regarded as the earth.

If later generations also stand from the perspective of God, if there are highly intelligent life on the Earth Island.

Is there also a lack of key geographical conditions for development here?

Aren't its natural resources also limited?

Isn't it also isolated in the ocean of the universe?

Doesn't it also have no resource exchange with other planets?

Then is its future an enlarged version of Easter Island?

[Thinking about it is terrifying! ]

[My brain is not good, the doctor told me to eat and drink, don't think too much]

[Such a great mental pressure is not something that a primary school student like me should bear. This kind of thing should be a headache for sociologists (dog head)]

[Why don't you let me think about what to eat tonight]

[I can't dust or wax the surface of satellites, nor can I design planets, maintain and maintain global oceans, repair and reinforce the melting glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic, and I can't refurbish nuclear warheads, but today is Thursday, Brother Fu v me 50, I will help you eat KFC]

"Yes, this kind of problem should be left to anthropologists and sociologists to worry about. I just want to cut down a suitable tree to make a boat."

Bifang smiled.

In fact, the disaster of the residents of Easter Island is more than that. In 1862, eight pirate ships visited here and captured all the natives who could be slaves on board, taking away a full thousand people, which is half of the population.

All the 1,000 people were men, including the chief himself and his children. None of them survived.

And at that time, smallpox was rampant. Like the Indians, the indigenous people here also had no antibodies. Until 1865, when a French missionary landed on the island, he counted the number of people and found that there were less than 500 people left on the entire Easter Island.

In the next 10 years, many of the remaining people followed the caravan to Tahiti to make a living.

In 1877, 15 years after the large-scale slave catastrophe, the number of people on the island was counted and there were only 111 people.

The population of Easter Island dropped precipitously: more than 20,000, more than 2,000, more than 1,000, less than 500, and finally only 111 people.

Until April 5, 1888, which was also Easter, the Chilean government announced the occupation of Easter Island on that day, followed by continuous immigration, construction, and farming. Until now, an Easter Island focused on tourism has appeared before the world.

An isolated island may not necessarily present the "flat land, neat houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboos, and roads and paths, and the sound of chickens and dogs".

It is more likely to repeat the tragedy of Easter Island.

"The trees on the island now are almost all brought to the island after the tourism industry flourished at the end of the 20th century. They may not have grown for more than 30 years, so naturally there will be no giant trees."

"However, some trees were transplanted because they were big enough."

Bifang stopped and looked at the resort in front of him.

As a world-renowned tourist destination, Easter Island naturally has many tourist hotels, which are quite luxurious. Many packages cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. After all, tourists who are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for air tickets and fly here from afar don't mind spending a little more money to enjoy good services.

If it were cheaper, this group of people would think it was not worth it.

The reason why Bifang stopped here was because this resort was a little different.

There were two big trees at the entrance, one was a palm tree, and the other was also a palm tree

Can these two trees be cut down?

Bifang was a little tempted.

After a small tour of the island, it was impossible to find a palm tree that grew naturally large enough. The only way was to find a transplanted tree that was already a mature tree.

The two trees at the entrance of the resort were undoubtedly transplanted. They were quite tall, at least more than 15 meters in height. Usually, a 10-meter-high palm tree takes nearly 20 years to grow. For a 15-meter-high palm tree, don't even think about it if it is not more than 30 years old.

In addition, Easter Island is very far away. If you want to transplant trees here, not to mention the price of the tree itself, the freight cost alone is extremely high, which shows that this resort is doing very well.

There are so many short trees on the island, but the two in front of the resort are extremely tall, refreshing, and at the same time, they have a touch of atmosphere, just like the welcoming pine on Mount Huangshan.

Good materials!

Bifang reached out and touched the bark, which was rough and wide, with shady leaves and good growth. It was obvious that the tree was well taken care of.

Recalling what the officials had said to him in Santiago, they patted their chests and said, "You want to use the trees on the island to make a boat? No problem, just cut them down. As long as they are on the island, it's okay to cut them all down!"

People can't go back on their words, right?