Easter Island - A Tale of the Rats

The history of easter island often gets brought up anecdotally as a warning against finite resources. The common narrative is the people on this island had limited resources, and they basically s sed it all up. They used everything up until the island itself was bare. It's really interesting to think that a civilization used up everything out of sheer agreed. But, you know, there was a multitude of things. This rat ot, like the parynesian people were fantastic at building boats, and they weren't seafaring people. And similar enough, with small islands, you always see tha the downfall when an animal comes in. There used to be a bird on maritius called the dod