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    The document summarizes how "progress traps" contributed to environmental destruction on Easter Island and relates it to modern society. It discusses how early inhabitants of Easter Island unsustainably exploited resources like palm trees for agricultural and construction needs. This led to complete deforestation of the island and its ecosystem by the 15th century. The document warns that humanity can still fall into similar "progress traps" today through behaviors like unsustainable resource extraction and environmental degradation.

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    The document summarizes how "progress traps" contributed to environmental destruction on Easter Island and relates it to modern society. It discusses how early inhabitants of Easter Island unsustainably exploited resources like palm trees for agricultural and construction needs. This led to complete deforestation of the island and its ecosystem by the 15th century. The document warns that humanity can still fall into similar "progress traps" today through behaviors like unsustainable resource extraction and environmental degradation.

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    Ecocide and How Progress Traps Play a Role

    Understanding the History of Easter Island as It Relates to Society Today

    Progress

    1. bow and arrow 2. spears 3. carved stone

    4. sword 5. gun 6. bomb

    Progress traps define human behavior that seems to provide benefits in the short term, but ultimately lead to disaster because they are unsustainable.
    Ronald Wright, author, in Surviving Progress (film)

    8. One mammoth hunted 9. Mammoths chased off cliffs

    10. coal mining 11. mountaintop removal

    Ecocide
    (n.) the destruction of large areas of the natural environment especially as a result of deliberate human action

    Takers

    Leavers

    14. Wall-E

    15. quote from letter in March 11, 1854 16. Chief Seattle of Suquamish Indians

    Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

    17. location

    18. Moai Statues standing on the slopes of Rano Raraku (1200 CE 1500)

    19. whole Moai statue (a little over 30 feet tall)

    20. palm roots imprinted in decayed soil 21. land as it is today

    22. Eyes that were once found on Moais

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