Rapa Nui People

The international society's management of natural resources is terrible, but it is not their fault. First of all we need to look at what kind of natural resources they are trying to manage and why it is so hard to manage. What we need to look at right now is that why does international society need to manage the natural resources. Why don't they do it before. Well, it all came down to the population of the world, because right now, people are living in a low budget world which they need to have more children, so they can use them as child labour to increase the family income. Then there is that tragedy of the commons, the commons were originally use by everyone in the town which they can graze their animal FREELY but the more animal they put on that commons, the more animals that is fed well, which will increase the income of an individual. Turns out that everyone in the town want to increase their own income and since the commons is free, they exploit the commons by putting so many animals to graze that the commons can support only a little. The solution was solved by enclosure of the commons, splitting it into privately owned pieces on each of which a single owner would have an incentive to manage resources responsibly.

Ocean is also part of an important natural resources that the world should be focus on right now. International society has trouble managing the forest is because they have trouble control the amount of fish that a fisherman can catch. Ocean is consider a global commons. People exploit the ocean by over fishing, dumping toxic and nuclear waste and other garbage, and long-distance oil shipments with their recurrent spills. There is no authority exist to enforce regulation and because of that, Ocean is FREE. What the world can do now is start by solve some of the problem that are manageable which is to stop the use of drift nets. Drift nets are huge fishing nets, miles long, that scoop up everything in their path. They are very profitable but destructive to the ocean ecosystem.

History shows that Easter Island was originally an island that was full with palm tree. The Natives that lives there has ignore that trees took a long time to grow back and start to exploit the forests. Today we do not know how a deforestation can kill 16 million palm trees. Were they using on building the Moai or as a source of drinkable plant sap? Some say that the reason why the palm trees were gone is because of climate change. More importantly, the population of the Rapa Nui people is big back in the time. Due to the effect of tragedy of commons, using all the palm tree to support one family has ruin the island.