[ISL] On how old Rapa Nui ended, not through indigenous ecocide but foreign genocide

[rfmcdpei]

Easter Island, easternmost outpost of Polynesia, has long been of at least passing interest to me. Even before Jared Diamond had presented a story of the island culture's eventual decine through environmental exploitation as a warning for our times in the mid-1990s, I had been interested in the island for its cultural achievements. There were the

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[robby]

I remember, years ago, reading an all together different scenario, sort of a social upheaval, where the cruel red-headed elite were tossed aside.

[rfmcdpei]

That does not seem to have happened, at least not in that way.