Archeologists suggest that Easter Island had a large population ranged from 7000 to as many as 20,000 people during the time. In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and their complex society and civilization was downfallen. Since then, Island's population dropped to 2000 when Roggeveen discovered Easter Island in 1722. Diamond hopes that we should learn from this history of overpopulation, which Easter Island as an example of increasing population result a shortage of food, and exhaustion of natural recours…
