Mitigating Global Climate Change through Equipment Standards: Telecom Experience

摘要

When the Europeans arrived at Easter Island in the eighteenth century, they found nearly a thousand huge stone statues but only one or two living Polynesians per statue on this desert island How could those great stones have been moved into place with no logs and.few laborers? Research s revealed the story. There had been a dense forest with birds, flowers, a complexjlourishing civilization, and a sizable population. There had been a king and religious building projects, namely stone statues: the moai. But too many trees were cut. Disease and rats got the upper hand Islanders faced pressuresfrom slave-taking Peruvian mine owners. Eventually the ecology and civilization collapsed concurrently. Decline was rapid: the oral traditions of the Easter Islanders are infused with references to cannibalism.