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The famed and mysterious Easter Island, isolated in the southern Pacific, and detached from the surrounding sway of competing civilizations, saw its own unique culture thrive and then drive itself to the edge of extinction. It is now thought that the thriving market-oriented culture on Easter Island exceeded the "carrying capacity" of the surrounding ecosystem, as its inhabitants competed to achieve material gain over one another. This led to an ecological collapse which left the island far less capable of supporting an extensive human population.
Many believe that the entire population of the Earth should take this lesson and apply the full scope of our science and consciousness to learning how better to achieve a level of ecologically sustainable economic development and market dynamics. Current research demonstrates a disturbing trend in which the world's most populous nations are already far exceeding the carrying capacity of their terrain.
© 2002 Joseph Robertson
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