Name: イースター島の危機 (Krisen på Påskön ( The Easter Island Crisis))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:31:42.000Z
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

On Easter Island there once lived a people

They were particularly proud of two things.

One of them was the fine canoes they were able to build.

They needed the canoes to catch porpoises

so that they could eat until they were satisfied.

was the fine stone statues that they built to honour the gods.

With the aid of logs and ropes the statues were put in place.

They felled trees to clear land for cultivation

so many trees had to be sacrificed on Easter Island.

But you cannot run out of trees, can you?

Time went on and the forest and the woods on Easter Island started to shrink.

The chieftains on the island became restless.

How could they build boats if there were no trees?

that you can surely build boats from something else.

”But it is not just our fault”, said another one.

The other villages surely  down more trees than we do.

"if we stop building statues many will be unemployed

We must build higher. Higher than the other villages."

that food was more important than statues.

The statues are more important than the trees!

than the number that grow in their place?

of the future need just as many trees as we do.

the Easter Island residents would have fared better.

have a life style that adversely effects the climate

and creates worse conditions for future generations.

So do what the Easter Island residents did not do.

Fight for political decisions that are good

Radikaliseraklimatpolitiken.nu for example?

And remember, the future generations are already thanking you for your effort!

is adapted from the book Collapse by Jared Diamond.

This is a Swedish petition with the aim of influencing Swedish politicians.

Please act to influence politicians in your country to take decisions

that will decrease emissions in your country.