I've heard that the story of overcutting trees causing and ecologic is a legend.
it seems that too small civilisation collapsed because of a series of dry years,while demography was too high. This is a small isolated island, and a climate bad sequence caused a black swan that swept the organisation of the society. I think that this was the same event that swept french kingdom... 2012/10/9 Nigel Dyer <[email protected]> > 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 appease their gods in the > hope that the gods would get them out of the mess that they had got > themselves into. No Gods appeared to wave their magic wands. I've had a > quick look at some of the summaries of "Collapse" and that seems to be what > J Diamond says as well > > Nigel > > > On 09/10/2012 14:36, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The Easter Island society ran out of wood and could not fish. The society >> >>> died out. >>> >> >> They did not die out. They were still there a century or two later when >> Europeans showed up. Granted, they were in dire straits. They destroyed >> their own environment, apparently for religious reasons. See J. Diamond, >> "Collapse." >> >> - Jed >> >> > >
