In modern times, Easter Island is deforested and depends on support from Chile as well as tourism for its local economy.
Some, for example Jared Diamond in his book <cite>Collapse</cite>, have cited Easter Island as a cautionary tale for what happens when a society foolishly squanders its natural resources without regard for the future, a process that admittedly happens much faster in the restricted case of an island. Thankfully, by the time we've used all our resources the Rapture will surely have already come.