From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui
@article{Peiser2005FromGT, title={From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui}, author={Benny J. Peiser}, journal={Energy \& Environment}, year={2005}, volume={16}, pages={513 - 539} }
The ‘decline and fall’ of Easter Island and its alleged self-destruction has become the poster child of a new environmentalist historiography, a school of thought that goes hand-in-hand with predictions of environmental disaster. Why did this exceptional civilisation crumble? What drove its population to extinction? These are some of the key questions Jared Diamond endeavours to answer in his new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. According to Diamond, the people of Easter…
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