Easter Island

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 …

…not find solution for population growth; they stagnated or disappeared just like Easter Island. Easter Island is relevant to population case studies shown in the video, we can descry that increasing population puts a huge pressure on natural recourses in India. Overpopulation also brings poverty and inaccessibility of education, in which most of women do have a chance to go to school, because women have to stay at home to taking care too many children.