What Caused the Collapse of Easter Island Civilization

I am reading the book "Collapse" by Jared Diamond. The story of how the Easter Island civilization evaporating is interesting. When Polynesians arrived in about 600 AD, they found an island with giant palm trees, diversed jungle that host abundant wildlife. They settled and multiplied, given abundant natural resources. Then they started cutting down the trees in order to build canoes and boats, and tools and means to transport huge rocks from quarry to valleys. They erected the rocks, carved them in the shapes of human, spending enormous manpower and natural resources for them. These activities were enabled by the abundant natural resources and easy to get food.

When the Europeans landed on the island in 1722, all they saw were giant statues all over the low areas, but the land was barren. No tree was taller than 10 feet tall. The Polynesians have completely deforested the island, and now lived in poverty and subsistence. The population size had collapsed to only about 10% of the peak.

The mistake of the Polynesians in Easter Island was that they took the abundant natural resources for granted, using them up without thinking about sustainability, and wasting them for useless ego-worship activities of erecting and carving stone statues.

Aren't we making the same mistake today with oil and mining? We take them for granted. Only few care about sustainability, and we use a lot of them for useless ego-worship huge houses and huge cars. We are not even taking major steps yet toward sustainability. We have not encouraged or required conservation in the amount of resources we use. Are we going to doom our future the same way Easter Islanders did? We are as vulnerable as they were in the sense that as Easter Island was isolated and could get no help from neighboring islands, our earth is isolated in the galaxy and we cannot get help from other civilizations if we ruin the earth.

As Christians, shouldn't we be a good steward of the natural resources that God gave?