About Jared Diamond's recent lecture in Virginia

Learning to draw lessons from the past
Learn from earlier societies' bad and good, author says at Forum
BY MELODIE N. MARTIN - TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Times Dispatch
Apr 15, 2007

Using Easter Island as an example, he described how its original Polynesian inhabitants depleted its supply of lush subtropical trees, resulting in a lack of protection from wind and water, erosion, civil war, starvation and cannibalism.

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