Cover photo – Easter Island
History provides many examples of how unsustainable patterns of natural resource use have had drastic consequences. One classic example is Easter Island where, after decades of widespread deforestation, an island that was once a rich tropical forest was turned into the almost desert-like environment that we see today.
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