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Ancient Greek philosophers seem to have had a lot of time on their hands. They didn't have to earn their livings. They were supported by slaves.

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#RapaNui #JaredDiamond #debunked

"'In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism.'

So writes Jared Diamond in his best-selling book Collapse, which was published in 2005.

Nearly two decades later, an international team of geneticists has found evidence that this famous cautionary tale never actually happened.

The true story of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by colonial Europeans) is not one of self-inflicted population collapse, the new findings suggest, but of cultural resilience.

In the 1600s, it seems that the ancient people of Rapa Nui were not utterly isolated on their island, and it is clear that they did not overexploit their resources to the point of 'ecocide'.

Instead . . ."

https://www.sciencealert.com/genetic-evidence-overrules-ecocide-theory-of-easter-island-once-and-for-all

#RapaNui #JaredDiamond #debunked

"'In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism.'

So writes Jared Diamond in his best-selling book Collapse, which was published in 2005.

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Levka

#RapaNui #JaredDiamond #debunked

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"We highlight that our results (and the genomic data they are based on) shed light on the Rapanui demographic history exclusively. Thus, they cannot be used to directly evaluate the ecological impact of human activity on the island. Whereas anthropogenic impact is widespread in Polynesia, we specifically reject the hypothesis that such changes in Rapa Nui resulted in population collapse in the 1600s, before European contact. Instead, our results support...

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13 September at 20:16 | Open on kolektiva.social

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@LevZadov The Rapa Nui's story is the last one featured in Fall of Civilizations. It's a heartbreaking story of Europeans coming into contact with a culture they didn't understand or respect. The guns of the Dutch sailors who landed on the island on Easter Sunday in 1722 weren't the only deadly weapons they unleashed on the Rapa Nui, who had for 1K yrs existed and thrived there. The fallout was terrible & heart wrenching causing the islanders to turn on their gods who had failed to protect them.

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There's an easier solution. Write in a text editor on your own computer, then cut and paste. Problem solved.

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