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Trains ecological Sunset: The case of Easter Island

The most significant and damaging the fight against serious crisis is that those who decide the supposed remedies are people in the past and the past is now part of the solution but to perdition.

The Network is the prophet. Vicente Verdú. El País. 15.01.2011

We have to rediscover how we talk about change: how to imagine very different organizational forms, free from dangerous chant of the revolution. We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means.

Val Something wrong. Tony Judt. 2010

In collapse. Why some societies persist and others disappear , Jared Diamond, a famous geographer, explores the causes that led to self-destruction of certain organized societies of the past. These include the case of Easter Island located in Chilean Polynesia. By the tenth century was consolidated in the island self-sufficient and hierarchical society whose survival depended on fishing and tropical forests in their regions. The forest was a source of food and wood for construction of fishing vessels. The society was segmented into clans vying with each other and competed for the prestige and status by erecting stone statues of a ceremonial, the moai .

These statues symbolize the power of the leadership of the clan and had to be transported from the peaks which were drawn to religious sites located on the coast. There they erected using the trunks of tropical forest trees as a means of transport since it was a society that did not know the technology of the wheel. The struggle for prestige and moai building was the driver of a competitive race that increased pressure on the land, the support they gave him the resources to survive. The depletion of timber resources in the prestigious competition, resulted in the inability to catch and keep building moai. The civil war between clans for control of resources eventually decimate the population of the island towards the end of the seventeenth century, condemning the practice extreme poverty and subsequent disappearance. The society of Easter Island was never the same after this schism. They failed to adapt to new shortages. Neither could or knew how to modify your lifestyle to redirect an economic model that was depleting natural resources from which their survival depended.

The case of the society of Easter Island highlights two fundamental aspects from the point of view. On the one hand the use that is made by human societies in the territory as a source of sustenance and shelter for human survival. Without the land the human species is doomed to failure. On the other hand, the capacity of that territory, ie the ecological or environmental limits beyond which the recovery of an ecosystem is irreversible. The metaphor of Easter Island is paradigmatic and serves to illustrate that in today's global society pressure on the territory is not only brutal but has intensified in recent decades. The territory continues to be used from an economic standpoint and long ago we crossed the environmental divide beyond which recovery is inevitable. Many studies on the ecological footprint that show and have warned of the excessive demands on materials and resources that the human species detracts from the territory and then returned as waste. Especially since 1700 (Human activity has been determining the climate in Europe since the year 1,700. The World. 01/17/2011) .

not appear that advances in technology and science developed by the largest specialists have done much to humans to treat the territory, earth, environmental, very differently to what did the beings that inhabited Easter Island. Paul Krugman himself has shown that the increase in raw material prices experienced in recent times demonstrates, beyond speculative behavior, a lack of resources for which demand has increased by emerging economies such as China, India or Brazil. (World finite. Paul Krugman. 09/01/2011) . We are in economic transition, social and environmental. A paradigm shift calls for new challenges that must give an appropriate response within the framework of democracy. Today our moai

the larger resorts are built in the Canary Islands, infrastructures that provide access to them, pursuing hotel facilities contain the highest number of tourists, the segregated spaces of urban areas offer visitors seeking tranquility and seclusion, fields golf, water sports facilities, artificial beaches created in the vicinity of many hotels. Facilities that rival the prestige and quality in a competitive race with other tourist destinations offering sun and sand model at prices much lower.

Beyond triumphalist declarations that seek to build trust without rethinking seriously the Canarian tourist model the heat of the annual pageantry that are organized on the occasion of the fair FITUR (revive the tourism recovery. Ana Oramas. La Opinión. 09/01/1911) are not foreseen, short-term, real changes in it, will continue focusing on expansion and attract more tourists. The current law costs could not stop the environmental degradation of coastal areas. They continue to be interpreted from a financial standpoint and where corporations related to the tourism and construction make use of the territory. Much of the coastal belts of the country are privately owned, built and ultimately deeply disturbed and damaged (The destruction of the English beaches. The Country. 20/08/1910) . Canary Islands is no exception to the rule (The beaches are. Diario de Avisos. 13/10/2010) and President of the Canary executive has made it very clear; Is it objective to say that in one year will bring a million more tourists? completely objective (Rivero: "Whoever knows me knows that I have kinks'. La Opinión. 09/01/1911) .

Overcoming environmental limits requires find new forms to organize the main economic activity of the Islands' economy, create goals that address the recovery potential of degraded and silted landscape Canary main source of tourist attraction. Why is there this much is certain that generate more wealth and jobs? Quality tourism and less intensive help to recover degraded areas are revalued and they will have new uses, also from a tourism perspective. And above all will combine tourism with the abandoned farming activities, source of livelihood for many families whose collaboration and cross-sectoral synergies can be obtained positive. A good safe will result in the creation of new jobs.

The apparent unanimity of the canaries in institutions and actors continue to strengthen the model of sun and sand mass under the guise of creating jobs, shows a dangerous acquiescence on an issue where other approaches would provide a refreshingly different view might enable output the quagmire where we are. A permanent consensus democracy which does not fit other views at odds with the official discourse, it risks running out of answers to new challenges that a changing world requires, above all, would not be a democracy. The case of Easter Island is a very telling metaphor in this regard.

Photo 1: Bivouac on the top of Guajara, Tenerife.
Photo 2: Moai on Easter Island.