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Rapa Nui
1994 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.
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Unless external factors kick in, like depletion of resources and soils. There's no any law of nature that says homo sapiens must be able to survive. Smaller scale examples are:
1. Easter island -- we, humans, deforested the island, that degraded and depleted human population significantly even before the first european ships discovered the island. From what I've heard, "Rapa Nui" movie is unusually historically correct on the events.
2. St. Matthew Island -- 29 introduced reindeer rapidly overpopulated the island and ate all the available food there, so the whole population died.
Same thing can happen on planet Earth.