Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Rapa Nui as environmental "tipping point"

Reaching our environmental 'tipping point'
By JOHN M. CRISP
Capital Hill Blue
October 2, 2006 2:05 PM

It's hard to imagine, but it's happened before, on a smaller scale. In his book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," geographer Jared Diamond examines the factors that led to the extinction of a number of ancient societies, including Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Maya, and Norwegian colonies in Greenland.

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