Does Easter Island's Tragedy Predict Our Society's Collapse?
Dennis Avery
Posted: Mar 31, 2018 12:01 AM
In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof misleads us about the awful history of Easter Island, which lost much of its vegetation in the cold and drought of the Little Ice Age. In doing so, he blinds us to the inevitable abrupt and icy climate change that lies in our own culture’s foreseeable future.
Kristof repeats the archaeological myth that Easter Island’s natives committed ecological suicide by cutting down all their palm trees. They supposedly used the logs as rollers to move their famous huge statues. Then, afterward, they could no longer build canoes to catch the fish that were their key protein source.
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisavery/2018/03/31/does-easter-islands-tragedy-predict-our-societys-collapse-n2466021
