Did the Easter Islanders Destroy Their Environment by Building Those Giant Stone Heads?
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7:30 "...as one might move a refrigerator." +2000 points for a perfectly clear analogy!
pivot... pivot... PIVOT!!! 😱 😂
MythBusters did an episode on the waling statues. Also, have any efforts been made to rid the island of the at population?
Rats cause a lot of problems
Please, no need for the fake stain filter.
CE ? FFS !
Actually, History Channel told me it was likely aliens that constructed the Moai. It was aliens obviously.
Which ones?
lol the ‘history’ channel…
😂😅
Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes so it must be true
My thoughts exactly, so much easier to conclude and know aliens must be responsible for anything that we fully understand or know about how anything ancient was done. This way our attention can be concentrated on more important issues... Like eating Tide pods and things of like. 😅
"What caused the environment erosion of Easter Island?" People.
"Wrong, rats." Ah, that other ultimate invasive species... brought there by people. We're still number 1!
Yeah, but who invented people?
God! God reigns number #1 in all things, especially destruction!!!
Sure if you’re going off the research done by racist, mercury drinking British psychopaths that came up with that theory! Who knows how it actually happened!
Fascinating, well-presented, tight.
"...Rats. They fought the dogs and killed the cats, and bit the babies..."
Another good example of why we can't have nice things
Why wouldn’t it be in the British Museum? The island and its culture had been abandoned and wiped out by that point. This channel is entertaining enough occasionally, but the level of research I hear doesn’t go past googling stuff.
Great piece about a fascinating place that really doesn't get enough discussion
Well, I can safely say that focus on building the statues certainly didn’t help the local ecosystem.
Well yeah, Pacific Islanders were doing an homage to the native people of the Americas. They did not understand as much about ecosystems until they integrated and brought that knowledge back to the islands.
Thank you for this video. I have always been fascinated with Easter Island.
Rat isn't evil.
Rat brought presents.
Like the plague and enviromental collapse.
God damnit, Rat!
10:06. I really want to see a source for the assertion that Father Eyraud's missionary activities resulted in the toppling of moais, because no online source supports that. On the other hand, the 1960 Valdivia (Chile) megaearthquake caused a tsunami that did topple a bunch of moais in Rapa Nui.
The rest of the video is pretty accurate, except that it doesn't mention that between 1895 to 1953 Rapa Nui became the property of the Compañía Explotadora de Isla de Pascua (Exploitation of Easter Island Company - yup) which turned it into a sheep grazing field and treated the natives pretty much as vermin.
That period only would make for a full-length video like the ones about Nazis. Not one of Chile's proudest moments.
Chilean librarian here. Worked decades on historical bibliographic research, which included the history of the native peoples of my country. ✌
Could he have possibly meant inadvertently? Christianity has historically been against idols that don't fall under the Bible's doctrine.
I could see being converted causing the locals to not care much about the statues, leading to them being destroyed for space or ignored and fallen into disrepair.
@@Aeikon Happened well before missionaries arrived.
@MariaMartinez-researcher That company was owned by Scotsmen carrying out another Highland Clearance. Disgraceful.
spent 3 days there last March. there were a lot of restrictions to get out there, but most are going away. it's an amazing place. if you drive the road that goes around 2/3 of the island and then cuts thru the middle, Google Maps says it takes about 1 hour. it's mostly paved, but a lot of the road is dirt with sharp rocks, so in reality it takes about 4 hours.
That must have been unexplainably amazing.
@@SmittenKitten.
it was. after watching "In Search Of..." as a kid in the 70's, i had to see it in person.
the locals have done a good job over the years restoring the Moai sites (they were all knocked down after the Catholics moved in in the 1800's). most sites are fenced off, and you have to hire a local "guide" (US$100+ per day) if you want to get into them. they're really hard up for cash out there after the island shut down for covid (most flew back to the mainland). or you can just take pictures from the fence, most are only 2-3 feet high. with a good lens you can still get great pics.
you can drive yourself around in a rental car even if you don't hire a "guide", but you still have to buy a USD$80 park pass (good for 10 days) as most of the island is designated as a national park.
the sunrises and sunsets are amazing, and having a light pollution free night sky is a really rare find these days.
@@Joe-sg9ll
1. register with Chile's online e-visa system (which was only in spanish).
2. covid card with proof of booster within the last 90 days.
3. copy of hotel reservation (only at a government approved hotel).
4. copy of return flight ticket
5. copy of park pass
6. get an international driver's license. Chile did not require it but the island did.
7. travel insurance with emergency evacuation.
and a few other hoops to jump thru.
pre-covid, you didn't need any of that except the return ticket. after i got everything, once i got there a lot of it they didn't even want to see. when i went to the airport for my flight out, i asked where i show my documents. "oh we stopped doing that last week". but then had to show it when i got out to the island. remember, this was almost 2 years ago that i booked everything and south america got hit harder and came out of covid later than everyone else.
I never understood why people say BCE instead of just BC. It seems rather silly to try and take the religious aspect out of it when the entire calendar we know today was a creation of the Catholic Church anyway. Saying BCE is extra letters just to signal that you took the Christ out of BC. It's pretentious.
Yeah I don't get it either. Whether you believe or not, the fact still remains that the zero point is still set at what is reported to be Jesus' birth. The only way BCE would make sense, is if our calendars got a brand new reset with a new zero point between BCE and CE. Which it doesn't have. It's like the constant attempts to take Christianity out of Christmas, using "Xmas" or the term "Holidays" inspite of the fact you're still only celebrating that particular date to this day _because_ of Christianity. Nothing you do outside of changing the celebration date itself will alter this fact.
@@DavidStruveDesignsthe X is an abbreviation for the word Christ. People used it when handwriting because it saved energy. Now that we type everything, it is no longer necessary.
@cassieo you are exactly correct. It is the same as how Jewish people take offense at being called "kikes." Jewish immigrants to the USA were asked to sign entry documents in the early 20th century at immigration spots like Ellis Island. And when the Jewish immigrants disembarked the ocean liners that brought them here they were processed through immigration at places such as Ellis Island and asked to sign their name. Most of these Jewish immigrants were illiterate and as such were asked to make their mark with an X. However, being Jewish, most refused to sign with an X because it was "too close to a cross," and therefore too close to admitting the divinity of Christ to them. So the Jewish immigrants insisted on signing with a "circle" instead of an X as their signature mark. And the Yiddish word for "circle" is "kikel." And that is why Jewish people are called kikes.
Have been - it’s a stunning island and a wonderful trip.
Note - speaking to actual natives and locals, the majority are HAPPY to have an Easter Island head in the British museum. I quote one young man; “It’s reassuring to know it is being preserved for future generations, in a way that we never could here. Just 1. And it helps encourage visitors to fund our local economy that relies on tourism. I’m glad it is there, but also glad it’s the only one”.
what he said makes a lot of sense.
yeah, the vocal majority of the Air Quotes "locals" (said sarcastically) who say that are Continental Chilean rather than Rapa Nui
@@Artista_Frustrado incorrect. Also, that divide you’re desperately trying to wedge in there? Not really a thing like you’re trying to make it out to be.
I love it when people try to tell you what your own experience was 😅👍🏻.
@@aps-pictures9335 well for starters you apparently don't know what quotation marks are for, so let me re-explain what you clearly missread:
1- no, i didn't say the Locals of Easter Island. I meant the people of actual Continental Chile are the ones claiming that.
2- no, i didn't say what YOUR experience was. I simply added context to what Simon said in the video.
3- I'm not "desperately" trying anything, don't be so melodramatic
@@Artista_Frustrado lol editing the comment completely, after I’ve replied to it, only to criticise me for not mindreading what you’d change it to…
Well done 🤦🏻♂️.
I find it quite interesting that the Rapa Nuians came from South America, while their capital city Tangaroa is named after the Polynesian God of the Ocean.......
They did not come from South America. Hyerdal didn't know what he going on about.
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv Ah ok
@@durk5331
Its in the video that he was wrong. I do recommend his book Kon Tiki, its a great adventure story of his crossing the Pacific on a raft from South America to Rapa Nui.
Its his conclusion that since it could be done it was done that is the problem.
I am so very thankful that the Moai and other Easter island artifacts and art were saved and preserved by the British Museum! If not for the caring actions and interest in preserving Easter Island cultural items showed by Brits and the other European and South American people we all would not have these irreplaceable cultural artifacts today.
Those alcohol is a solution shirts is so stupid and inaccurate. Vodka is a solution but alcohol by itself is merely a solvent. It's stupid because it's trying to use "alcohol beverages" in place of alcohol.
Damn. The rats? But they're so cute. My rat (beandon) actually watched this with me...
The stelae of Axum, Ethiopia, might make for an interesting episode or segment.
Another reason to hate religion
Heads up, these guys are stone. 😅
CE ffs
Ohmywow... That is a WHOLE LOT of stuff we did not learn in school 😳
Of course, I graduated 30 years ago and back then it was only covered for a single day in class... 🙄😅
03:25 "eastern coast of South America." Did you mean the western coast of South America? In the next sentence you mention Peru, which is on the west coast. If they came from the east coat, they'd have to sail south in the Atlantic Ocean, around Cape Horn and north into the Pacific Ocean to Easter Island.
Doesn't really matter that they got confused as the people of Rapa Nui are Polynesians and not from South America. That is in the video. And many other sources. Its Thor Hyerdahl who came up with that long disproved idea. His book, Kon Tiki, is a great adventure story, its the theory that is wrong.
@@Joe-sg9ll
Do you have any evidence for that claim? You would be the first.
@@Joe-sg9ll
The rocks are volcanic in origin on Rapi Nui. I suppose parts of Peru would have volcanic rocks. Not evidence.
No one has heads like that. Evidence please, not silly assertions that are not relevant.
@@Joe-sg9ll
Correct, you have no evidence.
@@Joe-sg9ll
I never said any such thing.
Evidence you don't have any. Nor does anyone else have evidence supporting you. Including the late Thor Hyerdahl. He wrote a good adventure book but his theory was just plain wrong. Same for you.
Yay!!! Love your videos!!
They are full bodies with some having glyphs on the back matching gobekli tepe. There is far more to the story of earth than we know.
Oh yes. Far more. There is a lot of history we are not being told and the more you dig, the more it becomes apparent. (no pun intended)
Why does everyone always say ..of course in the British Museum.... It has two...
The Smithsonian has eight Moai, and the Metropolitan museum has a couple of others... Chile, France, New Zealand...
I saw a documentary years ago which said it may have been deforestation that contributed to erosion which made it hard to grow food.
Did you even watch the video? He mentioned deforestation, however the rats eating the seeds made reforestation harder.
@@brianm6117 Why do I feel I'm being yelled at? Do you know what a comment is? I did watch & listen to the whole vid. I was kind of agreeing with him. In the documentary I saw the trees were cut down for shelters & that land used to grow food. I don't think they used the logs for the statues. Where is the evidence of the spent logs? Also some say they lived in caves. It was just a comment dear Brian. Now bugger off & Merry Xmas from Wyoming!
I watch an anthropologist named Stefan Milo who made a couple videos about Polynesians. It's been a while since I watched them and I'm afraid to misquote him, but I believe he said DNA reveals that they are descenced from either Thailand or Taiwan and first colonized Samoa before continuing east accross the other islands.
Ah, so instead of deliberate deforestation by humans it was just those humans introducing invasive species instead. Nice to see that made such a big difference.
Although I do note that these are just different competing theories with different supporting evidence, so we'll have to see the verdict in the research.
Also, new environmental degradation bought by the Europeans, like the sheep grazing, could have easily covered up evidence of either theory, making the history difficult to determine.
now handicraft and making sculpture is damaging to environment instead of your industrial pollution and computers?
Always fascinating!
I'd be interested to see a video comparing how many places were ruined by humans compared to how many were ruined by other factors where humans were still involved.
Some initial/obvious ones:
- volcanoes
- hurricanes
- wildfires
- invasive species
- species overpopulation
- earthquakes
- flooding
- dangerous algae blooms
- misquotes 😅
@@Nathan-vt1jz I know the causes lol.
I was asking for a comparison video to see what the ratio is as my instinct says humans have ruined more than natural disasters combined.
Also I just thought, to make it fair I'm only counting from the earliest date of the human race existing.
At this rate I'm just waiting for the "Report" of how humans are somehow responsible for the death of the dinosaurs. 🙃
@@Techstriker1 I honestly wouldn't be surprised if everything bad on earth was somehow humans fault.
@@samsarastarkey Only the MEN'S fault - you MUST be politically correct.
So are you saying that the Americans wasn't the first to domesticate slaved 😅
Do a video on the island that grows bigger every year because its inhabitants drive tree trunks into the sand to catch all of the erosion dirt and it gets bigger every year !
Some of the statues have something covering their heads. Could it be a toupee.
your ancestors destroying their history destroys environment
You just made climate Nazi's heads explode! 😂
Leave it up to Europeans to say they didn't wrong
Dragon drop technology sounds sick
Looks like a dude with sideburns, contemplating how to get back home.. haha. Staring out into the sunshine.. brow furrowed.. eyes squinted.. lol.
fluid engine yeah i got your fluid engine right here
How did the trees get there the first time??? Or on Hawaii?? "Science already said seed are brought by birds and wind sometimes even larg floating organic rafts..
Why couldn't nature do it again?? There's a reason trees don't grow there. May e it's the same as the islands around Scotland only grass on them as well.
I actually wondered this once whilst under the influence of a certain green substance 😂 you read my mind mate! 😂
I love British Vsauce.
Simon please fix your SW light sign in the background PLEASE!!!
What happened with your microphone? The sibilance is unbearable all of a sudden.
Did they get a massive influx of agricultural seeding ?....in these modern times the damage could be repaired.
Yes, yes they did
Now I understand why my magic spells fail.
I'm bald....
Do you smell your own farts with a funnel and a tube connected to form a straight-line to your nostrils?
Thought we lost him 😮💨
But we’re back with normal upload
Yes
Deforested the island
Agreed. Aliens made them
Very little truth in this one
The Colonizer did it
The people who are just commenting "yes" or "no" to supposedly "save the viewers' time" don't understand the value in learning history to any worthwhile extent
Ancient Astronauts Theorists will just say, it was the aliens.
🗿still a mystery
I can't stoo thinking about all those rats...
So these giant heads are not those that emit explosive blasts?
No, stowaway rats did.
🗿
Makes more sense than aliens.
NOTE HOW SOIL COVERS HALF THOSE MEGALITHS. LIKE OTHER MEGALITHS AROUND THE GLOBE they've been there for 10 or 12 thousand years. They aren't of Polynesian origin at all
I’m going to save you time: no. No they didn’t.
Cute cope *pats head*
I always thought that story in 'Guns, Germs and Steel' made no sense. How does a primitive society with limited crop diversity and no trade routes grow to a population density four times greater than modern day USA? Looking at other island communities, populations tend to stabilise within a range dependent on nutrition (new crops may raise the range) and disease (new endemic diseases or changes in insect habitability will lower or shift populations). Actually, that whole book had an Agenda that got in the way of historical facts.
Some anthropologists think the start of the collapse started in 1722....The Dutch sailors transmitted deadly diseases which caused a plague...This in turn caused the very efficient but essentially "closed" system and society to implode....So by the 1770s it was all but destroyed and the Rapa Nui were living in horrific poverty and degradation....
14:15 "Disease, murder and... " you said white people funny...
Yeah some people groups just don’t know how to maintain a civilization. Lol.
Yup, and some countries try to run other countries and stretch themselves thin and don't provide for their own citizens. The whole world is in a quick downward spiral.
@@mr.giggles4995 wrong argument but yeah they need the west to survive. Lol.
Did you even watch the video?
@@FathomLordKarathr did notice the type of people that can maintain a modern civilization? Hahahaha!
@@Connor_Roush Let's hope you never leave your mothers basement long enough to be put in charge of a civilization so we have to find out
they are literally rocks, how can they hurt anything?
It’s more than rocks. It’s culture and history
it also doesnt benefit anyone
Apparently at some point everyone agreed that every artwork had to look similar. Think of all the cool animals and birds they could have carved
man I hate when people use CE instead of AD
Tough shit.
Not such an "open, shut" case after all! Very informative, thank you.
Exactly why I've always recommended bringing a variety of trained cats to any unexplored island.
They'll attack the native bird population, you say?
Well, it'll teach those birds about evolution!
"Trees or birds traveler, you can only have one!"
CE doesn't exist. It's AD
There is zero chance for a pair of rats to become 17 million in a year…maybe in 100 years, but even that is a stretch
3 years - and that's how compounding multiplication works yes. For reference, a single female can have 7-8 litters a year, each litter can be up to 12 rat pups, and each pup reaches full reproductive maturity in 3 months, going on to each have their own 7 litters a year, each being 12 pups.
Multiplication and addition aren't your strong suit I take it. I was going to show the numbers but another has done so. This is why those that keep pet (or live food source for snakes etc) rats and mice that escape are not liked in their neighbourhoods - they multiply quicker than rabbits. Also he didn't say 1 pair and it was in 3 yrs - listening is good too!
What is CE? What other wokisms are you now skewing facts with?
Aww, poor snowflake. Did he hurt your feelings because he didn’t acknowledge your fake god 😂😂😂😂😂 yeah he did 😂😂😂😂😂😂
How to tell if someone's an idiot: they use CE, BCE.
Today I found out that one all female crew crashed their plane in Hawaii and another all female astronaut crew let their toolbag float away.
Dang, adulting is hard for xx.