Sunday, May 13, 2007

Rapa Nui's "dilema faced by Rome, Anasazi, Mayans and present day Rwanda

SELECTED GROWTH FALLACIES: PART 15--NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS
Frosty Wooldridge
American Chronicle
April 28, 2007

In his book, “COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond illustrated how great civilizations dismantled their own sustainability. On tiny Easter Island, humans ignored nature, cut down all the trees, built 50 ton rock monuments and died of overpopulation via starvation. Today, we’re faced with the same dilemmas Rome, Anasazi, Mayans, present day Rwanda and other vanished civilizations discovered.

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