Keith Nagel quoted:
It became impossible to support 7,000 people on this diminishing resource base and numbers fell rapidly.
After 1600 Easter Island society went into decline and regressed
to ever more primitive conditions. Without trees,
With fewer people, and no more statue-hauling, why didn't the trees grow back?
They grow like weeds around here.
and so without
canoes, the islanders were trapped in their remote home, unable
to escape the consequences of their self-inflicted,
environmental collapse.
