{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"3840503","dateCreated":"1208788561","smartDate":"Apr 21, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"lfantini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lfantini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455704\/lfantini-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/fantinisfantastic.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/3840503"},"dateDigested":1532253428,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"H7 Easter Island","description":"The author of the video, Fred Moolten, said "I don't live on the island, why should I care."
\n Discuss how you respond to Mr. Moolten, using Easter Island's history as metaphor for what could lie ahead for future sustainability.
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\n**Remember to write a minimum of 7 sentences, using the vocabulary, history, supporting facts to back up your discussion.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"3947353","body":"the video is saying that since he dosen't live on the island he shouldn't care, well the lsland is very much just like the world to day and there are many people just like the author of the viedo, for example some people are saying y should we care if the artic is gettting smaller, y would it affect us, if everyone thought like this then the world will just start to slowly crumble, because no one will care and so no one will do anything and we will lose the earth eventually, i think the author of the video is a big poppy head n a meany!!!","dateCreated":"1209337545","smartDate":"Apr 27, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"swambua","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/swambua","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455851\/swambua-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4015669","body":"Mr. Moolten seems to have the same idea that most people on earth have with respect to environmental issues. The Easter Island crisis is a possibility for reference to what may come of the entire earth. The sustainability of the earth is completely dependent on how humans treat the earth. The carrying capacity of the island was quickly used up and was no longer able to sustain the amount of people living on it. The inhabitants used all of their resources quickly to have the luxury of certain materials which they didnt know would be gone soon because of a lack of resource partitioning. The Island went under environmental degredation which is the same thing that is happening with the deforestation in certain areas for materials. The Earth has only a limited supply of natural materials and if we use them all up, the future of the earth and its inhabitants could be in trouble. So in responce to Mr. Moolten, even if we didnt live there, we can still take a hint from the past and use it to correct the present.","dateCreated":"1209646470","smartDate":"May 1, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"PrattTempleton","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/PrattTempleton","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455510\/PrattTempleton-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4044693","body":"Mr.Moolten had some excellent points on what is transpiring on in the world and how it relates to Easter Island. What happened at Easter Island is simply a foreshadowing of what is to come, and when Mr. Moolten said "I don't live on the island, why should I care" he was talking about most everyone\u2019s view Easter Island. Many would say that Easter Island is too small of a scale to compare to the entire earth. So, most would disregard the warning and not use history to learn from past mistakes. I think the author of the video is a big poppy head n a meany!!!","dateCreated":"1209750651","smartDate":"May 2, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Maggio818","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Maggio818","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1237982468\/Maggio818-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4044777","body":""I don't live on the island, why should i care," is showing how a lot of people just kind of sit back, relax and watch the problems in the world go by. The history of Easter Island showed that, by people going above and beyond the carrying capacity and abusing the amount of resources provided, the civilization of the island rapidly declined thus leading to complete wipeout. Because people did not understand the concept of resource partitioning, all of the breathtaking possessions that the island offered were depleted. Environmental Degradation was also a major issue on the island and the Rapanui people did not understand that all of the things that surrounded them would not last forever without our help. When the rats would eat the seeds it did not allow for primary succession for the trees to exist causing them to eventually become extinct. The population explosion also led to the depletion of resources. As a result of this, there was not enough food for everyone. Because of that, the cooks on the island tried to think of new foods for people to eat so that no one would starve. The history of Easter Island is a metaphor for what could happen in the future because since our population is rapidly growing, eventually we will run out of resources which is exactly what happened on Easter Island. All I hope is that people will be a little smarter when deciding how much resources to use and not use too much but just enough, because this disaster is very likely to happen again.","dateCreated":"1209750875","smartDate":"May 2, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"tdlorenzi","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tdlorenzi","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455221\/tdlorenzi-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4045235","body":"I think that Mr. Moolten represents the thinking of most people in the world today. Most people think that just because something is going on somewhere that is not their home they think that it does not affect them but it does because if everyone has that attitude then the problem will continue to escalade and will eventually get to you. Then you will be wondering why no one will be trying to help you. At Easter Island the people abused their land and did not try to conserve anything and they just did not think about what would happen in the future. If they would of taken care of their land and did nto use up all of their resources they could of still been living on Easter Island. People in todays world have the same attitude that the people of Easter Island did they do not realize that the world will only continue to sustain itself if we take care of it. Which includes everyone not just the people in a country that have used up most of their resources and are trying to build their ecosystem back up. But htis also includes the people who are on the other side of the world because the world is the same where ever you go and the problems in one part of the world could happen in another part of the world. This the attitud eof the Easter Island natives was wrong because everyone should care about the land and you should do everything in your power to help sustain it so that we can continue to live here and you can give future generations a place to live.","dateCreated":"1209752038","smartDate":"May 2, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"daniellefishsticks","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/daniellefishsticks","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455502\/daniellefishsticks-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4045281","body":"I agree with Taylor when she says," The history of Easter Island is a metaphor for what could happen in the future because since our population is rapidly growing, eventually we will run out of resources which is exactly what happened on Easter Island". If everyone cared this wouldn't happen. Also, we can learn from Easter Island.","dateCreated":"1209752183","smartDate":"May 2, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"tdlorenzi","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tdlorenzi","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455221\/tdlorenzi-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4045283","body":"I agree with Taylor when she says," The history of Easter Island is a metaphor for what could happen in the future because since our population is rapidly growing, eventually we will run out of resources which is exactly what happened on Easter Island". If everyone cared this wouldn't happen. Also, we can learn from Easter Island.","dateCreated":"1209752185","smartDate":"May 2, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"tdlorenzi","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tdlorenzi","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455221\/tdlorenzi-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4068517","body":"Author Fred Moolten said \u201cI don\u2019t live on this island why should I care?\u201d A lot of people in our society today have the same mindset and attitude as he does. People are not being apart of the solution they are apart of the problem and with comments like that they are fine with nothing being resolved. The people in Easter Island did not care about their own land and they mistreated the natural resources that were provided to them. If the people inhabited on Easter Island new about resource partioning all of their surroundings and resources would not be washed-out. They did not understand and grasp the concept of environmental degradation. Inhabitants did not know that Easter Island wouldn\u2019t last forever without keeping their land healthy and well-kept. They did not care, they had the same attitude as Moolten and that is not how any of us should live. The animals that ate the seeds and plants that would soon grow did not help for succession. I agree with Taylor when she said that Easter Island is a metaphor. We can all learn from this video for what to do and not to do in the future to better our environment.","dateCreated":"1209949774","smartDate":"May 4, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"hpharris","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hpharris","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455911\/hpharris-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4084485","body":"The author, Fred Molten, said "I don't live on this island why should I care?" This to me means that he does not care about our environment in general. The problem in Easter Island is that they did not know how to use resource partioning. They wasted many valuable resources. This is affecting the carrying capacity on the island. Many of the trees and plants on the island became extinct and without them, no succesion could occur. The island had to learn how to have sustainability in their environment with their limited amount of resources. His comment was very selfish and showed that he only cares about the environment if it is affecting him, and if not, then he does not care and won't do anything to help. The expotential growth of this island was not very good either. The people living on this island needed to care more about where they lived and how it was treated. If they had cared, it would not have turned out this way.","dateCreated":"1210021060","smartDate":"May 5, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"mdharris","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mdharris","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455924\/mdharris-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4089561","body":"As Fred Moolten quoted, "I don't live on this island why should I care?", I believe his way of thinking is completely incorrect. According to the history based on Easter Island, our Earth is heading down those very same paths. We are limiting earth's carrying capacity by cutting down our trees, for more and more space for humans to occupy, and also for resources us humans need to survive. This is resulting in environmental degradation due to the limiting of resources from the effects of pollution and the elimination of trees. In comparison to Easter Island, the species are becoming extinct just like our world today, without resource partioning more events like these will occur. As time went on in Easter Island, succession began to take its toll due to the depletion of trees and eventually the loss of food and other eventually extinction. If Earth maintains its sustainability it has today, Earth will start looking more like Easter Island, with a careless looking Earth, with dry soil, which plants could not grow, and species dying off due to lack of food, along with lack of air due to the depletion of trees, and the increase of pollution in our air.","dateCreated":"1210036499","smartDate":"May 5, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"cbegley","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/cbegley","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208456018\/cbegley-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4097203","body":"Hi Mrs. fantini!!!!!!!!!!!!","dateCreated":"1210083722","smartDate":"May 6, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Track21","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Track21","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/Track21-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4097949","body":""I don't live on this island so why should i care?" is just basically saying I don't care about live here so why should i care what happen to this island! they don't even really know what you do in one place effects what happens all over the world. In a way i a lso agree with ptatt because most people in the world do believe and share the same thoughts that Mr. Moolten has.YEs, in a way this statement is a metaphor because most people as i stated above do think in a way our planet is soon to go under. In the U.S i also noticed that we use our resources in big chunks without thinking of others or later. i hope that our enviroment just wwake up and realize that by recycling 1 time isn't really going to help. i mean i don't want to be a hipocrit, so i mean i need to try and make a difference myself.","dateCreated":"1210084945","smartDate":"May 6, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Track21","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Track21","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/Track21-lg.jpg"}}],"more":5}]},{"id":"3840483","dateCreated":"1208788531","smartDate":"Apr 21, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"lfantini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lfantini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455704\/lfantini-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/fantinisfantastic.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/3840483"},"dateDigested":1532253428,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"H6 Easter Island","description":"The author of the video, Fred Moolten, said "I don't live on the island, why should I care."
\n Discuss how you respond to Mr. Moolten, using Easter Island's history as metaphor for what could lie ahead for future sustainability.
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\n**Remember to write a minimum of 7 sentences, using the vocabulary, history, supporting facts to back up your discussion.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"3844045","body":"I belive that this is a foolish remark made by an incosiderate person. Easter Island started out growing at an exponential rate by growing off of their large number of moai trees. Until one day, the chiefs of the Rapanui, the name for the inhabitants of the island, ordered them to obtain as many trees as possible, performing a Tragedy of Commons. The population declined and the Rapanui tribe fell down to only having 111 individuals by 1872. Overall, if the Rapanui tribe would have used Resource Partitioning, the decrease in Rapanui members would have been a much less harsh number. Also, there was not enough time for succession to occur due to the rapid increase of deforestation occuring. In conclusion, although we may not live on Easter Island, it has tought us a valuable lesson in which we can only take so much away from our environment before it's too late.","dateCreated":"1208798838","smartDate":"Apr 21, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Zach_Beitel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Zach_Beitel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1203567382\/Zach_Beitel-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3844067","body":"Mr.Moolten had some very good points on what is going on in the world and the connection to Easter Island. What happened at Easter Island is simply a foreshadowing of what is to come, and when Mr. Moolten said "I don't live on the island, why should I care" he was showing most of today's population point of view about... everything! This self-destruction we are currently in, must be stopped, and ignoring it is in no way an option. There are a few things we could do like recourse partitioning, where we all share our rescources or have equal access to them, so we are all equal, and not let one country abuse energy and another rot.
\nThe Rapanui obviosuly had no clue what carrying capacity is, or else they wouldn't have gone wood-crazy with all the forests. Carrying capacity is just how much an environment can hold, and if you go over, there will be consequences. The Rapanui cut too much wood that they used for everything.
\nThe Tragedy of the Commons comes into effect","dateCreated":"1208798877","smartDate":"Apr 21, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Nelson_Vicens","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Nelson_Vicens","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1220900542\/Nelson_Vicens-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3844107","body":"
\nRegardless of whether or not we live on an island, we should care about Easter Island's precautions. The Rapanui people on Easter Island\u2019s sustainability depended on the trees provided on the island. They ate the fruit from the tree, the birds that lived in the trees, made shelter, boats, spears to kill fish, dolphins and tortoises and burned wood from the trees to cook food and keep warm during the chilly winter nights. Eventually, the people on the island began to get somewhat competitive about their resources. They would cut down the trees on the island so that others would not be able to use them (resource portioning). This is an example of the Tragedy of Commons, where the common belief is, \u201cIf I don\u2019t take it, someone else will.\u201d Even though it would be much more beneficial to take only what you need and leave the rest for others and then some to let it re-grow. However, the trees were being cut down quickly and were not given enough time to re-grow. This environmental degradation of the land was the destruction and complete removal of the island\u2019s trees. The tree specie became extinct. The island\u2019s rats ate all of the trees seeds, so the tree was not able to grow again, thus leaving no opportunity for succession. Without the trees to support the ecosystem, there was an inbalance of people to resources, meaning that the human population was now over the carrying capacity.","dateCreated":"1208798940","smartDate":"Apr 21, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"KHerbine","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KHerbine","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3854029","body":"Easter Island is a place that shows exactly what might happen to our world, if our population keeps exceeding the carring capacity in which our Earth can hold. A long time ago there was human life on Easter Island, but was sadly destroyed by abusing their only resources. They would use their only resources like they could never run out, which caused environmetal degration to be a part of their disappearance. Resource partioning could have helped them improve on this section of their issues, but they still weren't understanding and weren't taking the time to figure the outcome of their concenquences. Since they were using so many trees for survival and art, and there was only so many trees limited on the island, they started to put seeds down to grow more trees. With the humans taking all the food sources for themselves and leaving not alot of food for the animals, the rats of the island would come and eat the seeds to replace the other foods. This caused the trees to not be able to proceed into the process of succession, causing them to become extinct. This caused a major decline in the limited reasouses that the Rapanui people, and caused their sustainability to weaken. Eventually when they all were gone and all was left was the island and stautes, people in developed and Fred Moolten wonder, "I don't live on the island, why should I care." Even though you don't live on the island, you should care because the same thing that happen to that island can easily happen to the rest of the world, if we keep it up the way we are living today. You should never not care about anything, because that anything can become something, and that something can be the end to anything. Someone needs to stamd up and take i stand, because this is a scary situition that the Rapanui people had to deal with, and we might eventually be included. =)","dateCreated":"1208830932","smartDate":"Apr 21, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"kwhitehouse","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kwhitehouse","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208453022\/kwhitehouse-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3863619","body":"Easter Island is a miny version of what is happening to our earth. We are slowly killing our planet by taking too much and not replenishing it, just like the people living on Easter Island did. Just like that island, we too are exceeding our carrying capacity. Slowly we are taking over the earth and using too many resources. The people living on Easter island used trees for everything. They did not give the trees a chance to regrow. The population slowly declined as a lack of resources and there was not even time for succession to take place. If everyone would use resource partitioning we would not use up everything that we need as fast which would give the environment more time to make more of it\/ adapt. The people eventually began to compete for the resources. We are slowly degrading the environment.","dateCreated":"1208884461","smartDate":"Apr 22, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"amycross","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/amycross","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208452483\/amycross-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3863673","body":" If Fred Moolten truly believes in that comment, then he is very na\u00efve. A given area only has so much sustainability, we cannot afford to continue this environmental degradation on the place we live. Easter Island saw terrible results because of what the islanders did to their home and we will see the same results if we continue with what we are doing. We need to take steps to fixing the problem like beginning resource partitioning or to at least take steps to making it so that we stay around the earth\u2019s carrying capacity. It would be a poor decision to keep on doing what we are doing. This earth was given to us and we are ruining a good thing. If not, we will be in the same position in the future that Easter Island is in now, a state of succession.","dateCreated":"1208884589","smartDate":"Apr 22, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"TTroyer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/TTroyer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3863711","body":"Some people think that just because they don\u2019t live on the island that it has no effect on them. According to the article, though, if we continue to use up all of our resources the way that we do, we could (and probably will) end up just like Easter Island because of environmental degradation. We have greatly exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity and show no signs of stopping any time soon. People are not concerned about saving all of our resources for generations to come, instead they are using them up like there is no tomorrow. The Rapanui used the trees for everything, and when there were no trees left, they had no idea what to do. If we keep using up our resources, soon there won't be any left for future generations. We should use resource partitioning to try to solve the problem of using too many resources at once. People would need to work together though, so nothing like the tragedy of the commons takes place. We need to start to clean up our planet and be more conscious of our resources so that we are able to have a longer sustainability. So, we really should care about Easter Island because if we don\u2019t start to do anything soon, that could happen to us.","dateCreated":"1208884670","smartDate":"Apr 22, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"alunghi","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alunghi","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3863715","body":"Mr.Moolten had some very good points on what is going on in the world and the connection to Easter Island. What happened at Easter Island is simply a foreshadowing of what is to come, and when Mr. Moolten said "I don't live on the island, why should I care" he was showing most of today's population point of view about... everything! This self-destruction we are currently in, must be stopped, and ignoring it is in no way an option. There are a few things we could do like recourse partitioning, where we all share our rescources or have equal access to them, so we are all equal, and not let one country abuse energy and another rot.
\nThe Rapanui obviosuly had no clue what carrying capacity is, or else they wouldn't have gone wood-crazy with all the forests. Carrying capacity is just how much an environment can hold, and if you go over, there will be consequences. The Rapanui cut too much wood that they used for everything.
\nThe Tragedy of the Commons comes into effect because the wood was a common object and they used it all up way too quickly. The environmental degradation that they caused too themselves was too much to handle and they all died as a result.
\nWe should learn from their mistakes and work together instead of trusting that "someone else" will do it.
\nIf they let succession happen, slowly trees would grow back. But, noooo! This is how succession take sinto effect here. Perhaps they could have cut down ten trees and planted like 2-3 trees or something to replace them and let them grow. They should have taken their limited amount of trees into account, but you know... things never go as planned.","dateCreated":"1208884681","smartDate":"Apr 22, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Nelson_Vicens","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Nelson_Vicens","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1220900542\/Nelson_Vicens-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3872239","body":"What happened at Easter Island shows a simplified version of what can, and will, eventually happen to the entire earth if nothing is done to stop it. The Rapanui on Easter Island were apparently unaware of resource partitioning, which caused their whole society to collapse. These people led their island to the tragedy of the commons because they rushed to use their valuable resources. If they had all worked together and helped to replenish what they took from their land, they wouldn't have had this issue. Mr. Moolten's lyric is ignorant, because it completely disregards the fact that the size of the land you live on is irrelevant; what really matters is how the people living there are taking care of it. As on Easter Island, people all over the earth are using up resources in huge amounts without thinking enough about the future. We have already exceeded Earth's carrying capacity, so the problem will grow, leading to severe environmental degradation, unless something is done officially.","dateCreated":"1208912364","smartDate":"Apr 22, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"lyndsaycoloracci","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lyndsaycoloracci","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3913241","body":"
\n"I don't live on the island, why should I care?", "I don't live in Philadelphia, why should I stop the violence?", "I don't hang out with that girl, why should it matter what I say about her?" This attitude, pretending the burden is off our shoulders, is what is turning the earth upside down. Mr. Molton's question is a metaphor of the game we are playing with ourselves. As a race, we are depleting the earth\u2019s sustainability, by taking more than we need. Pretend that tiny Easter Island, a secluded island made of volcanic rock about the size of two manhattans, is our earth, and that we are the native Rapanui\u2019s. Our land used to contain more trees than people. Because of the environmental degradation of our forests for our king\u2019s consent and our reproduction rate sky rocketing, we are over the carrying capacity. Our land can no longer provide for us. Yet we continue to look past resource partitioning and take everything and more for ourselves, killing tons of dolphins until they are extinct. The tragedy of the commons is now an issue. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Caring for the environment is a domino effect, if one person litters, it becomes socially acceptable. If one person picks up that litter though, another will follow. You should care because at birth you were given the natural right to breathe clean air and bathe in clean water. Shouldn\u2019t your children have the same right?","dateCreated":"1209092638","smartDate":"Apr 24, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"srbrady","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/srbrady","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3962969","body":"The theory that how a person live only affects them and where they live is completely false. The choices we make directly and indirectly affect the world around us. Easter Island can be used as a symbol. The way Easter Island was degraded and destroyed could easily happen to our environment. The Tragedy of Commons occurred, people living in Easter Island must have believed that how they treated the environment would not make a big impact. This mindset is extremely destructive and occurs in our environment as well. The Island which was once filled with trees and life, was eventually without a plant life. The civilization crashed when the people used all of the resources. They were forced to do so when they exceeded the carrying capacity of the Island. Our environment also suffers over population which could one day lead to the fate of Easter Island. We must care about our impact on the environment and recognize how dangerous it is to believe that we can degrade the earth and take as much as we want from it because we are just one person. We must realize how many people think that way and take action to inform people before it is too late. We should learn from the story of Easter Island and cut down on the resources we take from the earth.","dateCreated":"1209417186","smartDate":"Apr 28, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Molli_Ferrarello","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Molli_Ferrarello","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1237846092\/Molli_Ferrarello-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"4104361","body":"The author of the song is saying, \u201cWhy I should care.\u201d When he says this he is having a sarcastic tone. He is saying that the typical American is so oblivious to the fact that the same thing that happened to the Rapanui islanders could actually possibly happen to us. He is saying that most people think environmental degradation will never happen. Just like the islanders we are depleting a resource that if gone will affect us in a very bad way. The tragedy of commons would likely take place just like it took place for the islanders. We are just too naive to see it. When the islanders ran out of trees, they thought succession would take place and everything would be fine. Well everything wasn\u2019t fine. There was a factor (the rats) eating the islanders only chance of succession for the trees. They thought just like some people think now that the resource will be fine and that it will be at the same sustainability level that was at before. A way to fix this could have been to resource partition and prevent the destruction that they eventually caused.","dateCreated":"1210095209","smartDate":"May 6, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"KHolzherr","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KHolzherr","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1238414317\/KHolzherr-lg.jpg"}}],"more":6}]},{"id":"3789129","dateCreated":"1208453381","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"lfantini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lfantini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455704\/lfantini-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/fantinisfantastic.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/3789129"},"dateDigested":1532253428,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"2. Practice Question","description":""Why Is Population Increase A Problem?"
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\nAnswer the above question using a minimum two(2)supporting facts. ALSO, respond to two(2) other student's postings.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"3790311","body":"i agree because the more people there are the more resources and space we will have to use up to support them","dateCreated":"1208455323","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"wkim1","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/wkim1","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455849\/wkim1-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790329","body":"wow danielle that is a very good point, we really don't have enough resources as it is now, and with more people, wow i don't even know what we would do","dateCreated":"1208455340","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"swambua","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/swambua","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455851\/swambua-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790337","body":"i think population increase is an inevitable thing that will continue to go on. i think that we need to find ways to compensate for the increase in population, and find ways to counteract the negative effects of population increase.","dateCreated":"1208455352","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Mdoroshow","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Mdoroshow","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455817\/Mdoroshow-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790365","body":"i agree..... not","dateCreated":"1208455385","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Maggio818","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Maggio818","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1237982468\/Maggio818-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790369","body":"Population increase is a problem for multiple reasons. One reason is that land, water, energy, and biological resources to provide food supply while maintaining our ecosystem. It is also destroying the systems necessary to maintain life. There are five main reasons. One, it is leading to environmental problems. This means that as the population increases, environmental problems are becoming more of an issue. Two, it leads to faster depletion of resourses. This is because there are more people using the resources, and therefore the resources will be depleted faster than they would if the population was of a smaller size. Three, population grows fastly. This is self-explanitory. Four, the prediction of population growth is hard to predict, so therefore we do not kno when all of these problems will occur. And last but not least five, population is not evenly distributed throughout the earth. This is bad because the world would not be equally populated, and therefore it will be worse in certain parts of the world. This is why population increase is a problem.","dateCreated":"1208455388","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"chrisjtats","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/chrisjtats","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1259614915\/chrisjtats-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790373","body":"I also agree with Pratt because our economy will also suffer from the population increase.","dateCreated":"1208455393","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"mdharris","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/mdharris","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455924\/mdharris-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790397","body":"That is superfluosly valid matt,","dateCreated":"1208455420","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"hlyberg","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hlyberg","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208454917\/hlyberg-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790407","body":"I think that population increase is a problem because we are going to use up all our resources and there is not enough space for everyone to live. It is going to be harder to provide a sutiable living environment.","dateCreated":"1208455434","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"hpharris","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hpharris","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455911\/hpharris-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790553","body":"If teh population continues to increase many more countrys will become third world countries and more people will die!!death","dateCreated":"1208455635","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"hlyberg","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hlyberg","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208454917\/hlyberg-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790583","body":"harleys an emo kid","dateCreated":"1208455697","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Maggio818","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Maggio818","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1237982468\/Maggio818-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790603","body":"innappropriATE MAGGIO!!","dateCreated":"1208455721","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"hlyberg","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/hlyberg","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208454917\/hlyberg-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3790733","body":"Population increase throughout today's society can be considered a problem due to both overcrowding and using up resources within the environment. Overcrowding can allow for more humans to take up space and make living conditions more difficult to survive in. Especially in areas around the world that have reached their climax community, previous, yet few, available resources become more scarce and harder to survive in. Also, with population increase and more resources being used up it becomes harmful in aspects towards the enviornment. It allows for the depletion of the ozone to increase, due to the greenhouse gases released and harming the enviornment. In addition, overcrowding leads to using up more resources, which harm the environment. With overcrowding, humans are more willing to harm the environment in order to floruish in their society and successfully survive. And, as a result to the destruction of the envrionemnt, it is apparent that the population increase can be harmful within society.","dateCreated":"1208455996","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Danni-Schwartz","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Danni-Schwartz","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":24}]},{"id":"3780393","dateCreated":"1208434295","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"lfantini","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lfantini","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208455704\/lfantini-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/fantinisfantastic.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/3780393"},"dateDigested":1532253428,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"I. Practice Question","description":""Why Is Population Increase A Problem?"
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\nAnswer the above question using a minimum two(2)supporting facts. ALSO, respond to two(2) other student's postings.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"3788899","body":"I agree with Nelson because since China has placed the stopping people from being able to have more than 1 child they have been able to control their population much more than they were able to before.
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\nI also agree with Morgan because too many people will take up too much space and the animals and plants will have to work harder to survive.","dateCreated":"1208452583","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"HGoosenberg","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/HGoosenberg","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208452797\/HGoosenberg-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788915","body":"To Kent:
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\nI agree that the world is in danger. If we begin to run out of recources, we could enter a giant WWIII for oil.","dateCreated":"1208452612","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Nelson_Vicens","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Nelson_Vicens","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1220900542\/Nelson_Vicens-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788925","body":"I agree with Lyndsay. we are running out of resources and the more people we have, the less amount of important resources will be available","dateCreated":"1208452651","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"amycross","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/amycross","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208452483\/amycross-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788931","body":"devin... no i have never considered it... thanks though...for that","dateCreated":"1208452660","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"leahjackson","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/leahjackson","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1204562330\/leahjackson-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788933","body":"NOw im really hungry","dateCreated":"1208452662","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"spacecowboy22","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/spacecowboy22","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1204602635\/spacecowboy22-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788935","body":"I agree with Leah, I think it's a problem that we are taking so much land from animals.
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\nI also agree with Hallie, food and water will become scarce if our population grows at such a high rate.","dateCreated":"1208452662","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"lyndsaycoloracci","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lyndsaycoloracci","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788945","body":"Population increase is a big problem for a few reasons. One reason is because of the amount of resources available on earth. The earth can not support the amount of people. Also, more people means that we need more space for those people to live. The more people that live on this earth, the more room we need to create, causing pollution.","dateCreated":"1208452687","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"TTroyer","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/TTroyer","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788971","body":"I agree that the developing countries are having too many children. I think that they should follow in China's footsteps and be encouraged or helped economically if they have only one child per family.","dateCreated":"1208452790","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"KHerbine","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KHerbine","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788973","body":"The more people, the more limited resources we use up.
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\ni think that lyndsay's point makes a lot of sense because i think that we will just end up running out of resources","dateCreated":"1208452795","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Zach_Beitel","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Zach_Beitel","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1203567382\/Zach_Beitel-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788975","body":"i think that this are all good ideas.. n i agree wit zack with we need to try to control the growing rate of births","dateCreated":"1208452796","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"kwhitehouse","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kwhitehouse","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1208453022\/kwhitehouse-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3788979","body":"i agree with lyndsay who agrees with leah about taking land from the animals.
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\nand i agree with kim about the earth not being able to support lots of people","dateCreated":"1208452835","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"alunghi","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/alunghi","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"3789021","body":"To Lyndsay,
\nI agree that the more the world increases, the more we take away from our animals's room and we won't have any food.","dateCreated":"1208452972","smartDate":"Apr 17, 2008","userCreated":{"username":"Nelson_Vicens","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Nelson_Vicens","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1220900542\/Nelson_Vicens-lg.jpg"}}],"more":22}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}