Tuesday, October 24, 2006

"Ecocide" and Rapa Nui

How the World Works: Are we not rats?
Andrew Leonard
Salon.com
17:25 EDT, Oct. 23, 2006

In August, anti-environmentalists of all stripes
pounced upon the publication, in the American Scientist, of University of Hawaii anthropologist Terry Hunt's account of why Jared Diamond ("Collapse," "Guns, Germs and Steel") was wrong about what really happened to the inhabitants of Easter Island. The executive summary: human-caused "ecocide" didn't result in the destruction of Eastern Island's civilization; instead, rats deforested the island and Western genocide wiped out the people.

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