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Mike Dickison@adzebill.bsky.social |
There’s a push to recast Easter Islanders as living in sustainable harmony, but they arrived on a lush Pacific island and in a few generations had completely deforested it, wiping out every land species except for a few insects and turning it into a parched wasteland. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Mike Dickison
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The beaches would have been a giant seal colony (all gone) and the hill slopes full of nesting seabirds (all gone except on a few islets nearby). The island would have supported thousands more than later could survive off dryland agriculture. It’s very disingenuous to say there was no collapse.
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