Yes, I agree. I believe that work originated here:
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/rethinking-the-fall-of-easter-island/1
Feature article, so apparently not paywalled - I'm not a subscriber, but
I can see it.
Jeff
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, David L Babcock
After doing a bit more reading I am a little more convinced by the
argument that a significant cause of the deforestation was to provide
the wood to move the statues. Whether this was religious or not is
unclear, although that is plausible. It may be in part this need for
groups of people to
The problem of ecological dominance is inherent in the eusocial nature of
civilized man. Eusociality results in ecological dominance. For a
discussion of this read E. O. Wilson's laterst book The Social Conquest of
Earth.
There is only one solution to this:
Civilization must leave the
On 10/9/2012 11:53 AM, Nigel Dyer wrote:
I had thought that they destroyed their own environment through
overharvesting and overhunting, ie the population was to large to live
sustainably. This is not a particualrly religious reason. I had also
gathered that the statues etc were an attempt to
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